The debt clock is *not* accurate. It's fundamentally impossible to be that accurate, and very misleading to use that many digits.
But approximately $57,000 per person isn't that big of a deal, because the interest rates on government debt are quite low. Currently, the interest on the national debt is 6% of the national budget. That means that effectively, 6% of your taxes represents your portion of the national debt that you are paying to fund.
The median household income in 2013 was approximately $52,000 per year. Assuming a married household with standard deductions, that represents a federal tax burden of about $5500 per year. So this median family pays $331 per year to service the federal debt, which is less than 1% of their income.
No, they should go after the leadership of the parent/contracting corporations. They were the ones that made the decision to drill, they're the ones who should be held responsible when it goes badly.
Most people wouldn't think it completely out of line, for instance, to have a $500,000 mortgage on a $100,000/year income. Currently, our government debt is less than GDP.
Um, this isn't a serious problem. Government debt is money that US citizens owe to themselves. The net balance is close enough to zero to not worth bothering about (some non-US citizens owe bonds, but many US citizens owe foreign bonds....US citizens own somewhat fewer in total dollar count, but tend to receive higher total returns).
It's a very good reason to require that people have vaccines in order to enter public spaces where you have lots of people in close proximity (e.g. school). It's not feasible to require vaccines for all similar public spaces, but for schools it is feasible.
Vaccines aren't 100% effective, and most people can't know if their vaccine wasn't effective until they come down with the disease.
Actual effectiveness varies significantly between different vaccines. I believe Measles is in the 90%+ range. So yes, some people depend upon herd immunity without even knowing it.
This is not even considering the people for whom the vaccine is useless (due to immune system issues), or who can't take the vaccine (e.g. due to an allergy).
When did this happen, precisely? As near as I can tell, the primary reasons why various Jews left Israel at different times were largely down to Roman persecution and Christian crusaders.
"Was" being the operative word there. That campaign ended in 1989. There's no evidence of continued development of WMD's anywhere close to the time of the US invasion. The closest thing to WMD's that was ever found in Iraq after the US invasion were old shells that clearly had not been in use and would probably have been useless.
The Bush administration lied out of their ass to get us to go to war in Iraq. This is now so well-documented that it really takes appalling ignorance to continue to believe that there were WMD's in Iraq.
I think the "Democracy" angle was more than a ruse. It's the foundation of the neocon foreign policy ideology. The oil companies supply the funds to promote the ideology, and the ideological rubes go forth and get millions of people killed.
Not gonna happen, as the biggest support for military action in the US comes from the Christian Right, which would side with Jews over Muslims any day (in large part because of beliefs about the apocalypse). If Israel and Saudi Arabia ever came into conflict, you can bet your ass that the US would side with Israel, for purely religious reasons.
That's not to say that there might be other reasons, but the facts would be irrelevant to the Christian Right who are always at the forefront of war.
In the US, at least, it's illegal to freeze somebody until after they've died. True believers still think that maybe someday the advanced technology will allow them to be resuscitated. But the freezing process destroys any possibility of that happening (there's no way to freeze human organs fast enough to prevent the formation of ice crystals, and those ice crystals shred our cells).
So, wait, you seriously think there are people out there who would voluntarily choose to sleep outside, often without any protection from the elements?
Right, but I'm pretty sure it's well-established that memories are storied biochemically, and the biochemical structure doesn't survive freezing let alone sitting in a freezer for a century or more.
But because of people like you, and a political system that refuses to provide sufficient aid to those in need, they are unable to find indoor places to sleep much of the time.
There's, "Maybe we'll someday be able to do this, and that would be really cool," there's, "This is currently in development and should soon be widely available," and then there's, "This is fundamentally impossible and there is no conceivable way it would ever work."
Cryogenics falls into the last category. This will become especially clear if you read up on what they actually did to the girl's dead body. There's more than enough amazing stuff in the first two categories to retain wonder for the future. We don't need to pretend that one day frozen corpses will be brought back and able to walk on top of that.
I think Xinerama support has been broken for a while, but RandR should allow you to configure your multi-monitor setup through your distribution's UI without issue.
The primary criticism here is that it did take nVidia a few years to actually support RandR, and the support for KMS is similarly lagging. nVidia's proprietary drivers are still, as near as I can tell, significantly better than ATI's counterparts (either proprietary or open-source) when it comes to actual 3D rendering. But it does seem like they drag their feet in supporting new Linux functionality.
For the most part this just isn't true. Most Linux distributions today have extremely easy ways to install proprietary video drivers, and have packages that do not break on kernel updates.
The biggest difference that I've noticed between proprietary and open-source drivers is KMS: KMS allows significantly faster wake-up from sleep mode. Though it does look as if KMS support is coming for nVidia proprietary drivers, as near as I can tell it isn't yet available.
If they wanted to get into the argument, more likely that they'd establish as a requirement that all Steam Machines ship using open-source drivers. This would produce a de-facto exclusive deal between AMD and Steam for supplying GPU hardware for Steam Machines unless nVidia also offered some decent open-source drivers.
There's no realistic way to limit their games to AMD-only, but they can definitely make it a little bit difficult for people to use NVIDIA cards on Steam-OS.
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I generally think it's better-tasting. Shouldn't be any more or less dangerous, though. I doubt there's anything worth worrying about.
For sure it's much healthier than sugar, though.
The debt clock is *not* accurate. It's fundamentally impossible to be that accurate, and very misleading to use that many digits.
But approximately $57,000 per person isn't that big of a deal, because the interest rates on government debt are quite low. Currently, the interest on the national debt is 6% of the national budget. That means that effectively, 6% of your taxes represents your portion of the national debt that you are paying to fund.
The median household income in 2013 was approximately $52,000 per year. Assuming a married household with standard deductions, that represents a federal tax burden of about $5500 per year. So this median family pays $331 per year to service the federal debt, which is less than 1% of their income.
This is not a big deal.
Google isn't a very old company. How many older programmers have long-term careers at older companies?
No, they should go after the leadership of the parent/contracting corporations. They were the ones that made the decision to drill, they're the ones who should be held responsible when it goes badly.
Not compared to the size of the economy it isn't.
Most people wouldn't think it completely out of line, for instance, to have a $500,000 mortgage on a $100,000/year income. Currently, our government debt is less than GDP.
Um, this isn't a serious problem. Government debt is money that US citizens owe to themselves. The net balance is close enough to zero to not worth bothering about (some non-US citizens owe bonds, but many US citizens owe foreign bonds....US citizens own somewhat fewer in total dollar count, but tend to receive higher total returns).
It's a very good reason to require that people have vaccines in order to enter public spaces where you have lots of people in close proximity (e.g. school). It's not feasible to require vaccines for all similar public spaces, but for schools it is feasible.
Vaccines aren't 100% effective, and most people can't know if their vaccine wasn't effective until they come down with the disease.
Actual effectiveness varies significantly between different vaccines. I believe Measles is in the 90%+ range. So yes, some people depend upon herd immunity without even knowing it.
This is not even considering the people for whom the vaccine is useless (due to immune system issues), or who can't take the vaccine (e.g. due to an allergy).
The crusaders slaughtered many Jews when they invaded Palestine, and mercilessly persecuted them during their occupation of the region.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_and_the_Crusades
When did this happen, precisely? As near as I can tell, the primary reasons why various Jews left Israel at different times were largely down to Roman persecution and Christian crusaders.
"Was" being the operative word there. That campaign ended in 1989. There's no evidence of continued development of WMD's anywhere close to the time of the US invasion. The closest thing to WMD's that was ever found in Iraq after the US invasion were old shells that clearly had not been in use and would probably have been useless.
The Bush administration lied out of their ass to get us to go to war in Iraq. This is now so well-documented that it really takes appalling ignorance to continue to believe that there were WMD's in Iraq.
I think the "Democracy" angle was more than a ruse. It's the foundation of the neocon foreign policy ideology. The oil companies supply the funds to promote the ideology, and the ideological rubes go forth and get millions of people killed.
Not gonna happen, as the biggest support for military action in the US comes from the Christian Right, which would side with Jews over Muslims any day (in large part because of beliefs about the apocalypse). If Israel and Saudi Arabia ever came into conflict, you can bet your ass that the US would side with Israel, for purely religious reasons.
That's not to say that there might be other reasons, but the facts would be irrelevant to the Christian Right who are always at the forefront of war.
In the US, at least, it's illegal to freeze somebody until after they've died. True believers still think that maybe someday the advanced technology will allow them to be resuscitated. But the freezing process destroys any possibility of that happening (there's no way to freeze human organs fast enough to prevent the formation of ice crystals, and those ice crystals shred our cells).
So, wait, you seriously think there are people out there who would voluntarily choose to sleep outside, often without any protection from the elements?
The political system is made up of people.
Yeah, that's not even remotely common.
What is your evidence for this?
Right, but I'm pretty sure it's well-established that memories are storied biochemically, and the biochemical structure doesn't survive freezing let alone sitting in a freezer for a century or more.
If that was true, they'd get a place to live.
But because of people like you, and a political system that refuses to provide sufficient aid to those in need, they are unable to find indoor places to sleep much of the time.
There's, "Maybe we'll someday be able to do this, and that would be really cool," there's, "This is currently in development and should soon be widely available," and then there's, "This is fundamentally impossible and there is no conceivable way it would ever work."
Cryogenics falls into the last category. This will become especially clear if you read up on what they actually did to the girl's dead body. There's more than enough amazing stuff in the first two categories to retain wonder for the future. We don't need to pretend that one day frozen corpses will be brought back and able to walk on top of that.
I think Xinerama support has been broken for a while, but RandR should allow you to configure your multi-monitor setup through your distribution's UI without issue.
For a link: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...
The primary criticism here is that it did take nVidia a few years to actually support RandR, and the support for KMS is similarly lagging. nVidia's proprietary drivers are still, as near as I can tell, significantly better than ATI's counterparts (either proprietary or open-source) when it comes to actual 3D rendering. But it does seem like they drag their feet in supporting new Linux functionality.
Fortunately neither editing the xorg.conf nor restarting are required any longer. Haven't been for a few years now.
For the most part this just isn't true. Most Linux distributions today have extremely easy ways to install proprietary video drivers, and have packages that do not break on kernel updates.
The biggest difference that I've noticed between proprietary and open-source drivers is KMS: KMS allows significantly faster wake-up from sleep mode. Though it does look as if KMS support is coming for nVidia proprietary drivers, as near as I can tell it isn't yet available.
If they wanted to get into the argument, more likely that they'd establish as a requirement that all Steam Machines ship using open-source drivers. This would produce a de-facto exclusive deal between AMD and Steam for supplying GPU hardware for Steam Machines unless nVidia also offered some decent open-source drivers.
There's no realistic way to limit their games to AMD-only, but they can definitely make it a little bit difficult for people to use NVIDIA cards on Steam-OS.