Tax like Eisenhower. Fight like Clinton. Problem solved.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
In the US this has played out in more subtle terms; but taxation and other
structural elements in the economy have plainly shifted the balance away from labor
towards capital. The tax code needs to be more progressive, and it won't kill the
economy no matter how much the Republicans and TEA partiers scream. It just won't.
Henry Ford was a huge honking capitalist, and he knew that the workers had to be able
to afford the cars so he could make money.
Think about it--if one king had all the gold and silver, what would be the price of gold and silver?
It wouldn't matter. People would abandon the metals and use something else. Same deal
with dollars and any other currency. Of course, on the way to that extreme state, something
else happens. The currency doesn't fall to zero, it just becomes worth less, and gets used
less. That's what's happening with the dollar. The rich have more and more dollars, but the
joke is kind of on them, because they're worth less and less. If you think buying gold will
fix this problem, refer back to the beginning of this paragraph. Barter will take over, not
gold, silver, or anything else that the working class doesn't also have.
Of course, we are nowhere near that point yet. There's still time. Just tax those who can
afford it, and stop sending those who can't afford it off to pointless wars. It really
is that simple.
I like what you're saying, except the numbers shouldn't be arbitrary. They should divide the number of hours spent on that incident by the hours in a year, then multiply by the annual budget to calculate the figure. Simple. Fair. Not arbitrary, inherently indexed to inflation.
If he gets enough response from the 2nd round of spam
to pay the interest on his debt, it's all good. Just
ask the US Treasury and Federal Reserve.
When pressed on this issue, his response was "What? Stop sending spam? What are you, some kind of
bleeding-heart Birkenstock Leftist whacko from Berkeley?
I say, spam FaceBook until its servers melt
into slag. FaceBook might invade my privacy. They may even
have weapons of mass privacy invasion. Spam them into oblivion.
It's the only way I to make sure."
Tuning your car by rotating the distributor cap
with a strobe-light "timing gun" aimed at the marks
on the pulley.
Sigh...
It was nowhere near as efficient as the all-electronic,
computer-based thingamabobs that tune your car 100 times
a second; but it was something teenage boys could understand,
and frequently did.
There are too many reasons now for them not to give teenage
boys a USB interface to all the wonderful stuff going on
under the hood. It would probably be even more fun than rotating
that stinking cap...
They should just chuck the "Home Edition"s.
Nobody really wants a crippled version, which is
what I (and probably a lot of other people think)
when they hear "Home Edition".
If it's about discounts for consumers vs. businesses,
they can probably find some other way to provide
a consumer discount.
AFAIK, Tesla was never based on Santa Rosa. They're a Delaware
corporation and have had offices on the SF Peninsula throughout
most of their history. There actually is a Tesla Electric in Santa Rosa,
but it's a contractor (ie, wires houses and office buildings). I guess
the long-standing position of the contractor, the fact that they don't make
vehicles, and (almost certaily) a different logo are enough to prevent
trademark issues.
I think you've got it. Passive resistance only
works if the enemy identifies itself as civilized in
some manner, or has a sense of shame. Thus, India could use it to prevail against
the British, who regarded themselves as civilized, Christian,
moral, whatever you want to call it.
On the other end of the spectrum, simple reactions of
violence just bring about the replacement effect you describe.
Somewhere in the middle, you have scenarios where you're
dealing with an enemy that can't be shamed into stopping. You need to drive the evil out of it, and then
stop short of becoming evil yourself...
"It is well that war is so terrible -- lest we should grow too fond of it." --Robert E. Lee.
Was ridiculed circa 1992 for saying "we don't need China"
to a graduate business school student, who was being indoctrinated
with Free Trade ideology. I told him our grandchildren would blame
us for the result. My only real mistake was that I should have said
"our children", as my predictions seem to be coming true sooner
than I thought.
They may be right this time, but who will
believe them? For those living under a rock,
I'm referring to the 3 American hikers who allegedly strayed
over the border from Kurdish Iraq, two of which are still
being held as spies.
This doesn't surprise me. Magnetic media seem to be fairly stable
as long as you don't subject them to temperature extremes or (duh!) magnets.
After all, video tape is a magnetic medium and lasts for decades too.
Also, in the C64 era we weren't really pushing the limits that hard.
The C-64 floppies had 168,656 according to Wiki (I seemed to recall 170k, but
decided to look it up, good to know I came close). At those bit densities,
I bet it's fairly robust. The much, much, slower casette tape data from that era
might be even more durable.... but I wonder how many people actually had the
patience to deal with them once the 1541 was available at a reasonable price.
The space shuttle was a remarkable piece of over-engineering, but 14 people lost their lives in it.
We should have learned two things: 1. Don't let the managers override the
engineers when they know what they're talking about. 2. The manned module
needs to go on top so it can't get damaged by crap falling off the boosters.
I think we may have learned (2), but I'm less optimistic about (1).
I think they actually did studies that proved the opposite. You know, the kind of studies that perceptual psychologists do when they flash things on a screen and you push a button?
No. Don't bother learning. Just hire an "online presence consultant"
and let them do it for you. Prices and quality of service will vary based on how much is at
stake. In the future, smart students will do real socializing at ball games
and keggers
while AI-bots make sanitized FaceBook postings on their behalf. Sign up
for PersonaBot now. $29.99/mo.
Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind.
I guess it might be a bit of a leap to assume
everybody on/. remembers that. Sometimes I forget
about the steady flow of teenagers just discovering
geek history. Wow! Your link starts out referring
to dates in the year 2000. Is DeCSS really that old?
How time flies.
The only real question is, can anybody figure out
how to fit the source on a T-shirt? If yes, the case
is moot, right?
Sort of half joking. In all seriousness, is the
source small enough to compress, encode in printable
form, and put on a shirt along with instructions for use?
Dude, we fit pretty much the entire history
of calculus on something not much larger than a
post-it note. We were permitted one 3 by 5 index
card of notes in some exams! You'd be amazed
at what you can fit in such a small space when
it really counts.
IANAphysicist, but everything I've heard about neutrinos
is along the lines of "they pass through the entire Earth with
a very small chance of hitting anything". This makes me wonder
how you can measure any kind of effect involving neutrinos, in a
sample that isn't the size of an underground cavern full of water.
Certainly they don't have a chunk of gold that big, or does gold
have unusually high neutrino-interacting properties? How long does
the experiment have to run? How sensitive is the whole setup and how
do they isolate it from other neutrino sources, etc.
LOL, I'd heard of that but totally forgot
about it. Isn't the gay thing always with
jeans pockets though? When I said "suit", I was
thinking jacket pocket. I just pulled up some
images and it looks like all suits have only
one front pocket.
can we also make it illegal to criticize individuals?
No. Only corporations and governments have rights.
However, if you file papers of incorporation and have
sufficient capital and/or connections, we might be willing
to have a talk with you.
Meet me under the Whitehurst freeway near the corner of
Wisconsin and K. Be wearing a dark suit with a red handkercheif.
Bring $10,000 in cash. We'll start from there.
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Tax like Eisenhower. Fight like Clinton. Problem solved.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
In the US this has played out in more subtle terms; but taxation and other structural elements in the economy have plainly shifted the balance away from labor towards capital. The tax code needs to be more progressive, and it won't kill the economy no matter how much the Republicans and TEA partiers scream. It just won't. Henry Ford was a huge honking capitalist, and he knew that the workers had to be able to afford the cars so he could make money.
Think about it--if one king had all the gold and silver, what would be the price of gold and silver? It wouldn't matter. People would abandon the metals and use something else. Same deal with dollars and any other currency. Of course, on the way to that extreme state, something else happens. The currency doesn't fall to zero, it just becomes worth less, and gets used less. That's what's happening with the dollar. The rich have more and more dollars, but the joke is kind of on them, because they're worth less and less. If you think buying gold will fix this problem, refer back to the beginning of this paragraph. Barter will take over, not gold, silver, or anything else that the working class doesn't also have.
Of course, we are nowhere near that point yet. There's still time. Just tax those who can afford it, and stop sending those who can't afford it off to pointless wars. It really is that simple.
I like what you're saying, except the numbers shouldn't be arbitrary. They should divide the number of hours spent on that incident by the hours in a year, then multiply by the annual budget to calculate the figure. Simple. Fair. Not arbitrary, inherently indexed to inflation.
If he gets enough response from the 2nd round of spam to pay the interest on his debt, it's all good. Just ask the US Treasury and Federal Reserve.
When pressed on this issue, his response was "What? Stop sending spam? What are you, some kind of bleeding-heart Birkenstock Leftist whacko from Berkeley? I say, spam FaceBook until its servers melt into slag. FaceBook might invade my privacy. They may even have weapons of mass privacy invasion. Spam them into oblivion. It's the only way I to make sure."
Tuning your car by rotating the distributor cap with a strobe-light "timing gun" aimed at the marks on the pulley.
Sigh...
It was nowhere near as efficient as the all-electronic, computer-based thingamabobs that tune your car 100 times a second; but it was something teenage boys could understand, and frequently did.
There are too many reasons now for them not to give teenage boys a USB interface to all the wonderful stuff going on under the hood. It would probably be even more fun than rotating that stinking cap...
They should just chuck the "Home Edition"s. Nobody really wants a crippled version, which is what I (and probably a lot of other people think) when they hear "Home Edition".
If it's about discounts for consumers vs. businesses, they can probably find some other way to provide a consumer discount.
AFAIK, Tesla was never based on Santa Rosa. They're a Delaware corporation and have had offices on the SF Peninsula throughout most of their history. There actually is a Tesla Electric in Santa Rosa, but it's a contractor (ie, wires houses and office buildings). I guess the long-standing position of the contractor, the fact that they don't make vehicles, and (almost certaily) a different logo are enough to prevent trademark issues.
I think you've got it. Passive resistance only works if the enemy identifies itself as civilized in some manner, or has a sense of shame. Thus, India could use it to prevail against the British, who regarded themselves as civilized, Christian, moral, whatever you want to call it.
On the other end of the spectrum, simple reactions of violence just bring about the replacement effect you describe.
Somewhere in the middle, you have scenarios where you're dealing with an enemy that can't be shamed into stopping. You need to drive the evil out of it, and then stop short of becoming evil yourself...
"It is well that war is so terrible -- lest we should grow too fond of it." --Robert E. Lee.
Was ridiculed circa 1992 for saying "we don't need China" to a graduate business school student, who was being indoctrinated with Free Trade ideology. I told him our grandchildren would blame us for the result. My only real mistake was that I should have said "our children", as my predictions seem to be coming true sooner than I thought.
You have decided to use violent revolution to overthrow the government. Now you have two problems.
Don't worry though. We can drop brown tree snakes on the revolutionaries. The snakes? We can drop poisoned frozen mice on them.
They may be right this time, but who will believe them? For those living under a rock, I'm referring to the 3 American hikers who allegedly strayed over the border from Kurdish Iraq, two of which are still being held as spies.
This doesn't surprise me. Magnetic media seem to be fairly stable as long as you don't subject them to temperature extremes or (duh!) magnets.
After all, video tape is a magnetic medium and lasts for decades too. Also, in the C64 era we weren't really pushing the limits that hard. The C-64 floppies had 168,656 according to Wiki (I seemed to recall 170k, but decided to look it up, good to know I came close). At those bit densities, I bet it's fairly robust. The much, much, slower casette tape data from that era might be even more durable.... but I wonder how many people actually had the patience to deal with them once the 1541 was available at a reasonable price.
1: I know, let's teach young Germans about their history. What could possibly go wrong?
2: Nothing I suppose, if we do it seriously and have a thought provoking discussion.
1: How about a 1st person shooter game?
2: Uhhh--
1: Glad you approve!
The space shuttle was a remarkable piece of over-engineering, but 14 people lost their lives in it.
We should have learned two things: 1. Don't let the managers override the engineers when they know what they're talking about. 2. The manned module needs to go on top so it can't get damaged by crap falling off the boosters.
I think we may have learned (2), but I'm less optimistic about (1).
Easy. For the 'R', all government spending is bad unless it's defense related. NASA does military projects, so cutting it is bad.
If anything, capital letters are easier to read
I think they actually did studies that proved the opposite. You know, the kind of studies that perceptual psychologists do when they flash things on a screen and you push a button?
No. Don't bother learning. Just hire an "online presence consultant" and let them do it for you. Prices and quality of service will vary based on how much is at stake. In the future, smart students will do real socializing at ball games and keggers while AI-bots make sanitized FaceBook postings on their behalf. Sign up for PersonaBot now. $29.99/mo.
WTF is a "power user"?
A power user is somebody who has the power to power-read content powered by powerful software.
OK. I understand there have to be limits, but 200? I say, 640 fart apps should be enough for anybody.
Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind. I guess it might be a bit of a leap to assume everybody on /. remembers that. Sometimes I forget
about the steady flow of teenagers just discovering
geek history. Wow! Your link starts out referring
to dates in the year 2000. Is DeCSS really that old?
How time flies.
The only real question is, can anybody figure out how to fit the source on a T-shirt? If yes, the case is moot, right?
Sort of half joking. In all seriousness, is the source small enough to compress, encode in printable form, and put on a shirt along with instructions for use?
Dude, we fit pretty much the entire history of calculus on something not much larger than a post-it note. We were permitted one 3 by 5 index card of notes in some exams! You'd be amazed at what you can fit in such a small space when it really counts.
IANAphysicist, but everything I've heard about neutrinos is along the lines of "they pass through the entire Earth with a very small chance of hitting anything". This makes me wonder how you can measure any kind of effect involving neutrinos, in a sample that isn't the size of an underground cavern full of water. Certainly they don't have a chunk of gold that big, or does gold have unusually high neutrino-interacting properties? How long does the experiment have to run? How sensitive is the whole setup and how do they isolate it from other neutrino sources, etc.
LOL, I'd heard of that but totally forgot about it. Isn't the gay thing always with jeans pockets though? When I said "suit", I was thinking jacket pocket. I just pulled up some images and it looks like all suits have only one front pocket.
can we also make it illegal to criticize individuals?
No. Only corporations and governments have rights. However, if you file papers of incorporation and have sufficient capital and/or connections, we might be willing to have a talk with you.
Meet me under the Whitehurst freeway near the corner of Wisconsin and K. Be wearing a dark suit with a red handkercheif. Bring $10,000 in cash. We'll start from there.
Weekly World News called. They want their headline back.