Reading skills weren't on the curriculum in your elementary school, were they? I'm making fun of "the other guys" for lying through their teeth to the little guys because the policy as written leaves big fat loopholes (to make big fat scapegoats for later) and the policy as sold to the ignorant masses leaves an unfunded mandate to "pay people more" without regard to how economies work.
"Overtime is not authorized." But we'll still base our performance evaluation on the same goals as before. That's th excuse for lowering your pay when you don't meet expectations and you'll end up exactly where you were before, except with more bullshit all around, and Dear Leader Obama gets to say he's "done something for the little guy." And that's why I'm a Republican.
I contend that if you have one million people generating 60k per year of economic activity, and one million sitting on their assets being content with the bare minimum of collecting 30k a year of free stuff, where the bare minimum is specifically meant to give you all you need, then: a) it's not sustainable from the point of view of resentment from the productive class, b) the slobs are just as likely to demand a hike in their sole to get more free shit as they are to try to work for it, and finally c) Attenborough time of perfect break-even, no one will have any capital to invest in that one virtuous slob's attempt to better his station by entrepreneurship.
This will work up to the point where, say 50% + 1, of the population decides that smoking pot, watching porn, and playing video games on everyone else's dime is A-OK. Before that point, there will be enough working people to keep the whole thing going. After that point, it'll be a downward spiral of everyone getting their 2500 MarxBux a month, but not being able to buy anything with it because too many people expect to get free shit for doing nothing to keep the store shelves stocked for everyone else.
The best social program is gainful employment. UBI is a fast track to creating a permanent underclass that lives in squalor and a productive class that will stop wanting to subsidize laziness.
Follow along here. The Swiss are successful. Why do they want to take advice from the Greeks? Especially that one Greek who had as much a hand in the mess as anyone else?
How about we put a big fat asterisk next to the output of a resigned-in-disgrace former finance minister from a broke, crooked, can't-stop-capital-flight, had-a-coup-in-living-memory, too-big-to-make-Europe-fail country? Just a thought.
In isolation, yes. On a big wet planet with lots of sources, sinks, and feedback mechanisms...it's not clear how much. Because real science with real predictive power is hard, but soundbytes and slogans are easy.
My logic is that pots don't get to call kettles black. And that the loudest voices screaming about AGW are academics with nothing to lose for being wrong, activists/businesses with something to gain, or zealots with a new excuse for their socialist fantasies.
(NB: a 10% cut to the income of the 10% richest people in the world is not sufficient reason in my book)
There you go again. NB: you don't get to dictate what 100,50,20,10,5, or 1 percent of the world's population can and cannot do and can and cannot own. It's called freedom. Suck on it.
True, but also irrelevant. It's all shorthand for something or other.
I can spend half a second saying 'global warming is bullshit' and move on to my next point.
Or I can spend several minutes explaining that what I specifically mean is not that the climate isn't warming, not that greenhouse gasses don't trap heat, not that climate models don't predict warming, not that ice cores don't indicate 'unprecedented' warming, but that 1. My own experience with radiative and convective transfer models tells me to only believe their outputs to one or two decimals places 2. My own experience with nonlinear and partially-observed dynamical system tells me that that third and fourth decimal place usually bite you in the ass 3. Greenhouse gasses aren't a uniformly reflective blanket, the ground isn't a uniformly emissive blackbody, and actually measuring absolute reflectivity and emissivity in the LWIR is a lot harder than people think it is 4. Ice cores notwithstanding, if there wasn't a thermometer to calibrate the old ice, it's still extrapolation,
and finally:
5. Given all of these very real complications and given academic scientists' unfortunate tendency to sweep these sorts of deep rabbit-holes under the rug, no waydo I have confidence that the often-drastic economic policies that are often floated as remedies to this "problem" are even remotely justified, especially given that the aforementioned solutions sound like the same collectivist BS the socialists have been advocating for the last century-and-a-half, this time with a new excuse.
But that's a mouthful to get out every time. So I just say 'global warming is bullshit' and move on to stay ahead of the next bit of sloppy thinking the commies are going to try. The sad thing is, the shorthand is repeated so often that people start to think of it as the substance of the argument instead of a symlink to it.
with a complete understanding of all the top climate models and their error statistics, and that not one of them is a blind zealot. Go ahead. I'm waiting.
No dog in the fight over at Verizon, that's between themselves to figure out, but a big fat Hell No to unionized software shops. You want all those idiots that can't code their way out of a paper bag or turn on their box without help to have guaranteed job security instead of just a slight chance of bubbling up into management? Unless you're one of those idiots...
White-collar work and unions don't mix. A union is a mechanism by which one may put more bullshit between himself and getting the job done and is another layer of politics to have to deal with.
Neat stuff, I'm sure. But transportation fuel will always be in the form of liquid molecules or solid anodes that are made in big factories in bulk at much higher efficiencies than possible with electrical transmission and run air-breathing engines with designs that don't need to pack fuel and oxidizer in close proximity. Unless you let the fully-baked hippies try to wish physics away with half-baked tree-hugger politics, that is.
I'm a hoarder of information, I admit it. At work, I retain all the bits and bytes that I can, because once in a while, it's useful. I keep all of my emails except the spam. I keep all my paper bank statements and print out all of my tax returns every year to add to the pile. And I expect people I work with to do the same. There's nothing quite so enraging as going to ask someone, what happened on day X and getting back a shrug: "I dunno, we deleted all that data".
Unicode? Fuck no. Latin characters abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. No spaces, no apostrophes, no arbitrary puncutation marks, and no fucking emojis, non-fucking emojis, or any emojis at all.
when I was in the 9th grade. Part of learning math. Good for Tamar that she's likes math enough to play with it, but must've been a slow news day in Israel.
Unless there's a tank in everyone's yard, and a drone trained on everyone, I fail to see your point. Public gun ownership keeps government honest. Does it prevent tyrrany? No. But it raises the consequences for any would-be tinpot dictator who might get it in his head to have the police or newly-minted 'deputies' going around searching everyone's houses for subversive materials. Is that likely to happen anyway in the US? No. But gun ownership (not necessarily universal, but not uncommon) is a form of herd immunity against it.
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And the same to whoever nodded him informative.
Go fuck yourself.
Reading skills weren't on the curriculum in your elementary school, were they? I'm making fun of "the other guys" for lying through their teeth to the little guys because the policy as written leaves big fat loopholes (to make big fat scapegoats for later) and the policy as sold to the ignorant masses leaves an unfunded mandate to "pay people more" without regard to how economies work.
Learn to read. Most of them will see exactly zero increase in savings from having their base pay lowered or having their hours capped.
"Overtime is not authorized." But we'll still base our performance evaluation on the same goals as before.
That's th excuse for lowering your pay when you don't meet expectations and you'll end up exactly where you were before, except with more bullshit all around, and Dear Leader Obama gets to say he's "done something for the little guy."
And that's why I'm a Republican.
I contend that if you have one million people generating 60k per year of economic activity, and one million sitting on their assets being content with the bare minimum of collecting 30k a year of free stuff, where the bare minimum is specifically meant to give you all you need, then: a) it's not sustainable from the point of view of resentment from the productive class, b) the slobs are just as likely to demand a hike in their sole to get more free shit as they are to try to work for it, and finally c) Attenborough time of perfect break-even, no one will have any capital to invest in that one virtuous slob's attempt to better his station by entrepreneurship.
I think he's a socialist, and I think Tsipras thought enough of him to have him in the cabinet. Turns out I'm right.
This will work up to the point where, say 50% + 1, of the population decides that smoking pot, watching porn, and playing video games on everyone else's dime is A-OK. Before that point, there will be enough working people to keep the whole thing going. After that point, it'll be a downward spiral of everyone getting their 2500 MarxBux a month, but not being able to buy anything with it because too many people expect to get free shit for doing nothing to keep the store shelves stocked for everyone else.
The best social program is gainful employment. UBI is a fast track to creating a permanent underclass that lives in squalor and a productive class that will stop wanting to subsidize laziness.
So the Swiss never came up with anything other than numbered bank accounts? Einstein, CERN, ETH, just distractions and bourgeois Jewish Physics? Cunt.
Follow along here. The Swiss are successful. Why do they want to take advice from the Greeks? Especially that one Greek who had as much a hand in the mess as anyone else?
How about we put a big fat asterisk next to the output of a resigned-in-disgrace former finance minister from a broke, crooked, can't-stop-capital-flight, had-a-coup-in-living-memory, too-big-to-make-Europe-fail country? Just a thought.
Meaning you can't build in the shade of an existing structure or geological feature? I second the "idiots!"
In isolation, yes. On a big wet planet with lots of sources, sinks, and feedback mechanisms...it's not clear how much. Because real science with real predictive power is hard, but soundbytes and slogans are easy.
My logic is that pots don't get to call kettles black. And that the loudest voices screaming about AGW are academics with nothing to lose for being wrong, activists/businesses with something to gain, or zealots with a new excuse for their socialist fantasies.
(NB: a 10% cut to the income of the 10% richest people in the world is not sufficient reason in my book)
There you go again. NB: you don't get to dictate what 100,50,20,10,5, or 1 percent of the world's population can and cannot do and can and cannot own. It's called freedom. Suck on it.
True, but also irrelevant. It's all shorthand for something or other.
I can spend half a second saying 'global warming is bullshit' and move on to my next point.
Or I can spend several minutes explaining that what I specifically mean is not that the climate isn't warming, not that greenhouse gasses don't trap heat, not that climate models don't predict warming, not that ice cores don't indicate 'unprecedented' warming, but that
1. My own experience with radiative and convective transfer models tells me to only believe their outputs to one or two decimals places
2. My own experience with nonlinear and partially-observed dynamical system tells me that that third and fourth decimal place usually bite you in the ass
3. Greenhouse gasses aren't a uniformly reflective blanket, the ground isn't a uniformly emissive blackbody, and actually measuring absolute reflectivity and emissivity in the LWIR is a lot harder than people think it is
4. Ice cores notwithstanding, if there wasn't a thermometer to calibrate the old ice, it's still extrapolation,
and finally:
5. Given all of these very real complications and given academic scientists' unfortunate tendency to sweep these sorts of deep rabbit-holes under the rug, no waydo I have confidence that the often-drastic economic policies that are often floated as remedies to this "problem" are even remotely justified, especially given that the aforementioned solutions sound like the same collectivist BS the socialists have been advocating for the last century-and-a-half, this time with a new excuse.
But that's a mouthful to get out every time. So I just say 'global warming is bullshit' and move on to stay ahead of the next bit of sloppy thinking the commies are going to try. The sad thing is, the shorthand is repeated so often that people start to think of it as the substance of the argument instead of a symlink to it.
with a complete understanding of all the top climate models and their error statistics, and that not one of them is a blind zealot. Go ahead. I'm waiting.
No dog in the fight over at Verizon, that's between themselves to figure out, but a big fat Hell No to unionized software shops. You want all those idiots that can't code their way out of a paper bag or turn on their box without help to have guaranteed job security instead of just a slight chance of bubbling up into management? Unless you're one of those idiots...
White-collar work and unions don't mix. A union is a mechanism by which one may put more bullshit between himself and getting the job done and is another layer of politics to have to deal with.
Neat stuff, I'm sure. But transportation fuel will always be in the form of liquid molecules or solid anodes that are made in big factories in bulk at much higher efficiencies than possible with electrical transmission and run air-breathing engines with designs that don't need to pack fuel and oxidizer in close proximity. Unless you let the fully-baked hippies try to wish physics away with half-baked tree-hugger politics, that is.
Easy answer: the Japonese should speak English and write with Latin characters like civilized people have done since time immemorial.
I'm a hoarder of information, I admit it. At work, I retain all the bits and bytes that I can, because once in a while, it's useful. I keep all of my emails except the spam. I keep all my paper bank statements and print out all of my tax returns every year to add to the pile. And I expect people I work with to do the same. There's nothing quite so enraging as going to ask someone, what happened on day X and getting back a shrug: "I dunno, we deleted all that data".
Unicode? Fuck no. Latin characters abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. No spaces, no apostrophes, no arbitrary puncutation marks, and no fucking emojis, non-fucking emojis, or any emojis at all.
when I was in the 9th grade. Part of learning math. Good for Tamar that she's likes math enough to play with it, but must've been a slow news day in Israel.
Unless there's a tank in everyone's yard, and a drone trained on everyone, I fail to see your point. Public gun ownership keeps government honest. Does it prevent tyrrany? No. But it raises the consequences for any would-be tinpot dictator who might get it in his head to have the police or newly-minted 'deputies' going around searching everyone's houses for subversive materials. Is that likely to happen anyway in the US? No. But gun ownership (not necessarily universal, but not uncommon) is a form of herd immunity against it.
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