German libertarians are only pro civil rights when they are in the opposition. When they are in the ruling coalition they happily stamp civil rights to the ground.
Because now we know that we can store torrents and pirated files in children's underpants (aka UnderWarez) that cannot, constitutionally, be searched by their school administrations.
Reasons why we should teraform Saturn's moon if it is, in fact, dead:
1) To see if we can.
Setting up outposts for mining, travel, prisoners, farming, storage, research, or anything else is secondary and uninteresting compared to the first. We are simply driven to see something else living outside of our own fishbowl.
This application of what you call "Corporate Welfare" is a 20-year-old term for an old face of corrupted socialism. The worst kind of socialism. Saying it's not socialism is equal to saying "Cut-throat laissez faire" isn't capitalism, because there are different degrees of capitalism. I know that some people think that calling this socialism is some "right-wing conspiracy" but it's about the mildest, least offensive term someone can call it. If anything, I hope you're considering the turn of events an insult to the word "Socialism" rather than thinking it's mudslinging to call the current administration "socialist"
Utah -- the state is very anti-union which makes for cheaper labor when it comes to manufacturing, some cheap landgrab deals will get you the spot you need along Interstate 80 or Interstate 15, and it'll only cost about $200 per car to haul them to Los Angeles or San Francisco if you're shipping a fleet. It wouldn't be a huge benefit to the populace as compared to Michigan, which could really use the jobs, (as Utah has one of the lower unemployment rates in the country right now), but it'd be cheap.
Using tax payer's money for funding failed businesses has nothing to do with socialism. This procedure is called "corporate welfare" and is pretty much the opposite of socialism.
Socialism is not a made-up world that only exists in theories and fairytale lands. There are states [countries] that practice it, and those same states [countries] agree with my definition, in their practice; not yours. I've lived and worked in a socialist country. I've seen tax dollars [Euros] keeping businesses alive when they hadn't made a sale in months. You've read a pamphlet on utopean socialism that is mutually exclusive with international stock exchanges.
Taking money from successful business ventures (those who can still afford to pay a slave's tax) and giving it to failed business ventures just to keep them open? That is socialism. I don't know what Alice-and-Wonderland sort of definition you're operating under that doesn't think so. The only thing wrong with saying "Obama is a socialist" is that you're keeping the list too small. Obama isn't the only one writing these punish-the-smart-to-save-the-stupid-and-greedy checks.
Snopes also said that cow-tipping didn't exist, because "no teenager could push over a cow that weighs so much"
It was years ago when I read it and dismissed the site forever. So when my wife was using it a little while ago (something about marshmallow peeps), I looked for the cow tipping thing, and couldn't find it, so I cannot provide the citation. In any case, Snopes sometimes relies on "reasoning" rather than research, and gets it horribly wrong.
The issue with this is that it doesn't provide a complete picture. As it is, the larger the fishtank, the more it will do to stabilize its chemical environment. A small fishtank will spike and crash with different chemical levels when a fish pees, but a huge aquarium keeps itself fairly balanced without additives and human intervention. You could certainly find out how the introduction of CO2 would affect a few thousand gallons of ocean, but it would be similar to attempting to create a 10-year weather forecast by pumping air and chemicals into a domed stadium -- you probably won't see what parts of the ocean manifest themselves to react with the new chemical spike. Some of the spots that we consider the "deadliest chemical environments" in the ocean host the greatest diversity of life on the planet.
-Patents should be 70 years or 30 years after the creator's death
How about not? Make them 10 years. You have 10 years to cash in on your ideas. You want to screw the whole world over in a fit of selfish "VIEW ME AS THE ARTIST I AM!" tantrum, enjoy your 10 years, but the government should not support you after a decade of your decadence. This isn't the industrial revolution or some atomic age. This is the information age where ideas are a dime a million. Today, unlike 20 years ago, everyone has access they need to sell an invention within a few days. Exposure is almost instant, and someone will do it better than you did in one year or less, anyway.
and most of them can be traced to certain groups (*cough*fundamentalists*cough*)
Yes, because everyone knows that you cannot learn Math until you accept evolution as fact..? Wait, what are you trying to say?
It's the "progressive" system that says that children cannot be graded and all children must be treated equally, as the least common denominator, that are screwing up the education system. Ignoring the focuses of challenge and achievement lower test scores in boys and girls, respectively. That's not even the cause of it -- just a symptom. It's apathy, greed, selfishness, and laziness up the entire educational chain (to the very top) that has put education in its sorry state. These are not consequences of fundamentalist ideals. How on earth did you come up with "fundamentalists" as a reason? Close your eyes and use a dartboard? Do you just go about blaming bad happenings on random things you don't like?
and the recession can be traced back to certain groups (*cough*Kids texting while driving*cough*)
I believe I read somewhere that they claimed it was a "per-upload" infraction. So it's something like she uploaded 24 songs something like 27,000 at $70 per violation.
There were 24 songs available -- no proof of any of them ever being uploaded.
Yes, this project would take $40 million + $100,000+ monthly patches to stay current if it was spaghetti coded. Where everything is hard-coded into everything else. If you set up modules and systems to create modules that won't affect one another if one module is removed and the other remains, or one is altered and the other is not, then you won't run into these sorts of issues. Does it take planning? In the beginning, it's much more technical planning and less project management. In the end, it's much less dependant on project management (You need something to alter janitor's income based on how many credits they're taking this year? Yeah, I'll just write a module for that! You need to make room for janitors who are also TA's? No problem! Oh, so now teachers can start taking percentages of their 401K's....") they take a substantial amount less effort to write and coordinate between different programmers or teams... and it makes it easier to set up a user-friendly interface. That way, if a module needs to be changed, you're working with only x% of the code, instead of tracing codes all the way to nowhere, and instead of shotgun patching everything, you can simply add in modules, and let their consultant arrange them.
Module is not a buzzword. It rivals caffeine as a programmer's best friend when it comes to nightmarish project management.
BTW if you REALLY believe your post, why the hell are you sat here, instead of on your private island after last weeks pop recording session? It's easy right? so why are you not giving up your career to do it?
Because I'm not a hypocrite.
You direct your question to a very interesting case study. I pursue art, in many different mediums, as a hobby. Legally, I am/entitled/ to over $14 million (1/7th of $100M) from our federal government that they probably never intend to pay, and I never intend to collect (because I'm entitled to it does not mean I think I deserve it). You unknowingly use my family's inventions every day, at low cost, because my grandfather never enforced his patents, and now they're public domain, as far as I know/care.
I was born (or indoctrinated) with a very strong work ethic, and I feel a great sense of satisfaction by using it.
Psycho and Guernica are both nonviolent portrayals of violence. You do not see blood splashing the walls of Guernica. You do not see the gore spurting from open wounds in Psycho. You see the confusion, turmoil, death, and suffering in one, and you see hands and murky water in the other. Censorship, in moderation, does not harm art. If that's what you think, then you do not understand art. The purpose of art is not to impress people. It is to conjure emotion and capture the ethereals, like beauty, horror, and greed. Human emotion peaks in its anticipations and reversed expectations, not in deliveries (think about how exciting Christmas eve is vs. Christmas for kids, or sitting in a very scary amusement ride, waiting for it to start -- or how the awkwardness in "The Office" compares to punchline-ridden sitcoms). Current trends in most... ahem... "art" is the cheap thrills from reversed expectations -- shock value. However, we've grown so accustomed to that, it's expected, and no longer shocking. Its overuse has turned it into, (if you'll excuse me), schlock value (I'm so sorry).
Most censorships don't bar conjuring this expectation -- the hope of seeing her nipples, the killer approaching his prey, despair, crescendos, sexual tensions... in fact it tends to force lesser artists into approaching the higher emotional marks.
If our current media's censorship is too much for you to depict your "artistry" then you are nothing but a cheap thrills vendor. Show some elasticity and flexibility or seek a different medium -- otherwise join the 9-5's.
Sounds about as complicated as my first-year Computer Info Systems semester project back in 2000. As a matter of fact, when I go home, I think I'll write one of these things for the hell of it, save it to my desktop, then delete it -- just as a speed challenge.
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Imagine the hideous analogies we can come up with. Judge A belongs to the bar association. Can he rule on lawyer misconduct?
What a horrible meta-analogy. That's almost as bad as me saying that something... relates... to stuff...
German libertarians are only pro civil rights when they are in the opposition. When they are in the ruling coalition they happily stamp civil rights to the ground.
Just like every political party in the world...
Because now we know that we can store torrents and pirated files in children's underpants (aka UnderWarez) that cannot, constitutionally, be searched by their school administrations.
At least in the US, if a politician tries to censor our internet from violent media, we still can buy guns to shoot them with.
Reasons why we should teraform Saturn's moon if it is, in fact, dead:
1) To see if we can.
Setting up outposts for mining, travel, prisoners, farming, storage, research, or anything else is secondary and uninteresting compared to the first. We are simply driven to see something else living outside of our own fishbowl.
This application of what you call "Corporate Welfare" is a 20-year-old term for an old face of corrupted socialism. The worst kind of socialism. Saying it's not socialism is equal to saying "Cut-throat laissez faire" isn't capitalism, because there are different degrees of capitalism. I know that some people think that calling this socialism is some "right-wing conspiracy" but it's about the mildest, least offensive term someone can call it. If anything, I hope you're considering the turn of events an insult to the word "Socialism" rather than thinking it's mudslinging to call the current administration "socialist"
Utah -- the state is very anti-union which makes for cheaper labor when it comes to manufacturing, some cheap landgrab deals will get you the spot you need along Interstate 80 or Interstate 15, and it'll only cost about $200 per car to haul them to Los Angeles or San Francisco if you're shipping a fleet. It wouldn't be a huge benefit to the populace as compared to Michigan, which could really use the jobs, (as Utah has one of the lower unemployment rates in the country right now), but it'd be cheap.
Using tax payer's money for funding failed businesses has nothing to do with socialism. This procedure is called "corporate welfare" and is pretty much the opposite of socialism.
Socialism is not a made-up world that only exists in theories and fairytale lands. There are states [countries] that practice it, and those same states [countries] agree with my definition, in their practice; not yours. I've lived and worked in a socialist country. I've seen tax dollars [Euros] keeping businesses alive when they hadn't made a sale in months. You've read a pamphlet on utopean socialism that is mutually exclusive with international stock exchanges.
Check out all the comments modded -1 Troll and -1 Offtopic in this article. Someone who works for Tesla had some mod points today.
Why would you get modded troll for asking an honest, critical question about something that appears in the summary?
One, it's Alice IN Wonderland.
It was a simple communication error. My brain told my fingers what to type and they must have misheard.
Two, definitions don't think.
5-6th grade english teaches the literary device "Personification." They do still teach literary devices in grammar-nazi camp; don't they?
Three, it seems they aren't alone
Then, perhaps, I should have said "Gulliver's Travels" rather than "Alice and Wonderland."
Obama socialist?
Taking money from successful business ventures (those who can still afford to pay a slave's tax) and giving it to failed business ventures just to keep them open? That is socialism. I don't know what Alice-and-Wonderland sort of definition you're operating under that doesn't think so. The only thing wrong with saying "Obama is a socialist" is that you're keeping the list too small. Obama isn't the only one writing these punish-the-smart-to-save-the-stupid-and-greedy checks.
Snopes also said that cow-tipping didn't exist, because "no teenager could push over a cow that weighs so much"
It was years ago when I read it and dismissed the site forever. So when my wife was using it a little while ago (something about marshmallow peeps), I looked for the cow tipping thing, and couldn't find it, so I cannot provide the citation. In any case, Snopes sometimes relies on "reasoning" rather than research, and gets it horribly wrong.
Spoken like someone who has never created anything and holds no copyrights.
and spoken BY someone who has.
Fish tank + CO2.
The issue with this is that it doesn't provide a complete picture. As it is, the larger the fishtank, the more it will do to stabilize its chemical environment. A small fishtank will spike and crash with different chemical levels when a fish pees, but a huge aquarium keeps itself fairly balanced without additives and human intervention. You could certainly find out how the introduction of CO2 would affect a few thousand gallons of ocean, but it would be similar to attempting to create a 10-year weather forecast by pumping air and chemicals into a domed stadium -- you probably won't see what parts of the ocean manifest themselves to react with the new chemical spike. Some of the spots that we consider the "deadliest chemical environments" in the ocean host the greatest diversity of life on the planet.
-Patents should be 70 years or 30 years after the creator's death
How about not? Make them 10 years. You have 10 years to cash in on your ideas. You want to screw the whole world over in a fit of selfish "VIEW ME AS THE ARTIST I AM!" tantrum, enjoy your 10 years, but the government should not support you after a decade of your decadence. This isn't the industrial revolution or some atomic age. This is the information age where ideas are a dime a million. Today, unlike 20 years ago, everyone has access they need to sell an invention within a few days. Exposure is almost instant, and someone will do it better than you did in one year or less, anyway.
and most of them can be traced to certain groups (*cough*fundamentalists*cough*)
Yes, because everyone knows that you cannot learn Math until you accept evolution as fact..? Wait, what are you trying to say?
It's the "progressive" system that says that children cannot be graded and all children must be treated equally, as the least common denominator, that are screwing up the education system. Ignoring the focuses of challenge and achievement lower test scores in boys and girls, respectively. That's not even the cause of it -- just a symptom. It's apathy, greed, selfishness, and laziness up the entire educational chain (to the very top) that has put education in its sorry state. These are not consequences of fundamentalist ideals. How on earth did you come up with "fundamentalists" as a reason? Close your eyes and use a dartboard? Do you just go about blaming bad happenings on random things you don't like?
and the recession can be traced back to certain groups (*cough*Kids texting while driving*cough*)
12 guys pissing all over the 8th amendment does make them a "Jury of Peers"
I believe I read somewhere that they claimed it was a "per-upload" infraction. So it's something like she uploaded 24 songs something like 27,000 at $70 per violation.
There were 24 songs available -- no proof of any of them ever being uploaded.
Such rulings are abominations.
One word: Modules.
Yes, this project would take $40 million + $100,000+ monthly patches to stay current if it was spaghetti coded. Where everything is hard-coded into everything else. If you set up modules and systems to create modules that won't affect one another if one module is removed and the other remains, or one is altered and the other is not, then you won't run into these sorts of issues. Does it take planning? In the beginning, it's much more technical planning and less project management. In the end, it's much less dependant on project management (You need something to alter janitor's income based on how many credits they're taking this year? Yeah, I'll just write a module for that! You need to make room for janitors who are also TA's? No problem! Oh, so now teachers can start taking percentages of their 401K's....") they take a substantial amount less effort to write and coordinate between different programmers or teams... and it makes it easier to set up a user-friendly interface. That way, if a module needs to be changed, you're working with only x% of the code, instead of tracing codes all the way to nowhere, and instead of shotgun patching everything, you can simply add in modules, and let their consultant arrange them.
Module is not a buzzword. It rivals caffeine as a programmer's best friend when it comes to nightmarish project management.
BTW if you REALLY believe your post, why the hell are you sat here, instead of on your private island after last weeks pop recording session? It's easy right? so why are you not giving up your career to do it?
Because I'm not a hypocrite.
/entitled/ to over $14 million (1/7th of $100M) from our federal government that they probably never intend to pay, and I never intend to collect (because I'm entitled to it does not mean I think I deserve it). You unknowingly use my family's inventions every day, at low cost, because my grandfather never enforced his patents, and now they're public domain, as far as I know/care.
You direct your question to a very interesting case study. I pursue art, in many different mediums, as a hobby. Legally, I am
I was born (or indoctrinated) with a very strong work ethic, and I feel a great sense of satisfaction by using it.
any form of censorship will stifle creativity.
Any real creativity will circumvent censorship.
Psycho and Guernica are both nonviolent portrayals of violence. You do not see blood splashing the walls of Guernica. You do not see the gore spurting from open wounds in Psycho. You see the confusion, turmoil, death, and suffering in one, and you see hands and murky water in the other. Censorship, in moderation, does not harm art. If that's what you think, then you do not understand art. The purpose of art is not to impress people. It is to conjure emotion and capture the ethereals, like beauty, horror, and greed. Human emotion peaks in its anticipations and reversed expectations, not in deliveries (think about how exciting Christmas eve is vs. Christmas for kids, or sitting in a very scary amusement ride, waiting for it to start -- or how the awkwardness in "The Office" compares to punchline-ridden sitcoms). Current trends in most... ahem... "art" is the cheap thrills from reversed expectations -- shock value. However, we've grown so accustomed to that, it's expected, and no longer shocking. Its overuse has turned it into, (if you'll excuse me), schlock value (I'm so sorry).
Most censorships don't bar conjuring this expectation -- the hope of seeing her nipples, the killer approaching his prey, despair, crescendos, sexual tensions... in fact it tends to force lesser artists into approaching the higher emotional marks.
If our current media's censorship is too much for you to depict your "artistry" then you are nothing but a cheap thrills vendor. Show some elasticity and flexibility or seek a different medium -- otherwise join the 9-5's.
Sounds about as complicated as my first-year Computer Info Systems semester project back in 2000. As a matter of fact, when I go home, I think I'll write one of these things for the hell of it, save it to my desktop, then delete it -- just as a speed challenge.