The point that was brought up was one of size and population density. Grand parent used Texas and Germany to sway the numbers in his favour. I made a counter example with California and Sweden to sway the numbers in the other direction.
Neither the grand parent or I used any kind of subsidy as part of the argument.
And Sweden is larger than California (449,964 km^2 vs 423,970 km^2), but only has a third of the population of California (9.3 million vs 36.9 million).
What are you smoking, that makes you believe that California couldn't sustain as extensive a train network as Sweden?
So parents have to choose between having a depressed delinquent child who likely will never have the chance to even try to reach their full potential, or drugs.
They have more choices than those two. For one they could choose to turn off the TV, sit down with their kids and just beating them.
Or put the kids into a school that can actually handle kids with actual issues. Or home school the kids. Or possibly find other solutions that I haven't thought of.
Claiming that parents only have two choices is as incorrect as adding a third one called "drowning them in the local river".
Nice try, but while "Newman" was indeed trying to make diversions, he wasn't stupid enough to close the T-Rex and Raptor containment fences. He was stupid enough, however, not to read up one which species were meat eaters, which is why he ended up getting attacked by that slime spewing one.
Justice is not about fairness. It's "did you break the law, and if so what's the stated punishment?"
What an interesting idea.
So, if country kills women for having sex outside of marriage, but doesn't punish the male because of the lack of witnesses (and women do not count) - that is justice, simply because it is codified in their law?
Suppose another country has made it an offence punishable by death to sing a song, but you only get a stern warning if you violently assault someone? Is that also justice?
Ask yourself this - in what way could it possibly be worse than a regular harddrive?
how does it crash? HDD: Painfully and irrevocably. SSD: Read only Does it crash in such a way that the RAID you are using keeps its integrity? Depends on how you configured your RAID. In what way could it possibly fail that would make it worse than an HDD failing?
When your hard drive fails, you've just lost all its data, unless you're willing to pay a ton of money for recovery. With an HDD, ALL data is lost. With an SSD only new data after the failure is lost. If you're running RAID0 on your important array, you're an idiot to begin with, and you deserve what you get.
And when you look at the performance difference between a massive SAS drive and a single SSD, there's hardly any reason to use RAID for SSD, as you can often replace 8 HDDs with a single SSD, when all you need is IO.
If you look at the reasons why the Taliban had the resources to blow up the towers
What towers? Do you mean the World Trade Center?
First of all, they weren't blown up - they collapsed after two hijacked air planes were crashed into them. Saying "blown up" conjures up a picture of either a bombing raid or demolition attempt, neither of which were the method used.
Secondly, the Taliban are an Afghani group. How many Afghans were involved in the hijacking of those planes? None of the hijackers were Afghanis, and no verifiable information has been given to indicate, that the Taliban were involved in the planning.
You seem to have somehow mixed a strange web of misinformation together. The towers were blown up (sounds like the "CIA arranged controlled demolition" conspiracy theory) by the Taliban (sounds like the "hijackers were from either Afghanistan or Iraq" nonsense that quite a lot of Americans believe in).
Yet you realize that the US did a lot of funding for the Taliban during the USSR occupation. True, but those resources weren't used to attack the US - they were (and are being) used to fight the foreign troops (now and then) in Afghanistan.
Language is about communication, it's not about the RULES of grammar. Yes, we have arbitrarily decided rules as to what gets an apostrophe and how things are spelled and so on...failing to follow this rule or that at any given time doesn't often hinder the communication.
Actually, failing to follow the defined rules makes communication harder if not impossible. For several different reasons. 1) Non-fluent non-native speakers/readers - these will have difficulties figuring out, just what the hell you're trying to say 2) Deaf people who've never heard words pronounced. They cannot just 'read out' a sentence to try to coax meaning out of something that makes no sense.
I even come packing with a great example. I read the following sentence in a short story, posted somewhere on the internet:
Kind Henry VIII was so angry he through a thrown threw a widow.
Now, you and I can figure out what this is supposed to be.
King Henry VIII was so angry he threw a throne through a window.
Now imagine that you are deaf. You have no idea what words are heterographs. Some things are somewhat obvious, though you cannot be sure, as the context is non-nonsensical.
King Henry VIII was so angry that he through a thrown threw a widow.
This is fairly likely to be correct, as 'threw a widow' (i.e. forcibly moved a widow in such a fashion, that her feet left the ground) makes it unlikely that we're talking about the Kind Henry VIII
But it still makes absolutely no sense, if you do know not the correct pronunciation of the words - meaning you cannot communicate that sentence to deaf people who have never heard the language spoken nor to people who aren't fluent in English.
Hell, even if you speak fluent English, you still have to run this past an internal and concious filter. This means that instead of reading this at your normal speed (which for me is around 90 paperback pages an hour), you have to slow way the fuck down.
Essentially you're now stuck doing 3 mph on an otherwise empty freeway, because some idiot has decided to block up all lanes along with his friends. Because, hey - they aren't in a hurry, and it's their right to use the road, so everybody else should just calm the fuck down or get off the road.
And if you don't believe the fluency part... my father still calls Google for Goggle, and Microsoft Office for Microsoft Officy (or something like that).
You show him a headline saying "Frugal Google" and he won't ever know, that this is a rather catchy headline. He doesn't know why http://www.google.com/products used to be called Froogle. And yes, he called it Froggle.
Also, there's an old trick which pops up in hard SF every now and then. Bury your interstellar ship inside layers of rock or water or both.
One advantage to this is waste management.
Since you'd need to recycle EVERYTHING on an interstellar (or even interplanetary) ship, use the massive radiation to your advantage. Feed the plumbing from all the waste to the outermost layers of the ship, exposing it to as much radiation as possible, thereby killing all bacteria, viruses and other parasites.
Doing this should allow you to save space/mass, since you then don't need as advanced a water treatment plant as you'd otherwise need.
If you were taught to use the two spaces, you're likely to always use that.
By that definition, I should be unable to type properly on an American keyboard layout, because the keys aren't in the same location as they are on a Danish one, which is what I was taught on and use almost exclusively (and have for close to 20 years).
However, if I were to change the keyboard layout to American, sure, I'd stumble a few times as I get used to the awkward location of;:-_?()/\' etc., but usually it only takes me about two minutes to get used to it.
Put me on a German layout, and I'll find other issues, as Z and Y are swapped amongst other things, but again, it really doesn't take all that long to get right.
Or for a completely different perspective. Languages. Danish and English are only slightly related (both being Germanic languages), which means that you have different rules for grammar and sentence structure. So how come people like me can somehow speak multiple languages, when it's apparently impossible for people like you to stop using two spaces at the end of a sentence?
Are those kinds of people possibly the same people who use for an apostrophe instead of ', even when you show them that they're actually going to use even fewer keystrokes to achieve their goal AND it will make them look like less of an idiot in the process?
Are you suggesting that unlike essentially any other kind of electronics, there has been exactly 0 development with regards to oscilloscopes for the last decade? That things cost exactly the same as then, you get exactly the same features and exactly the same models?
If not - why bother pointing to an article that is close to a decade old?
No, not a MagLev train (I'm not a complete idiot). The idea is apparently to utilise the same principles for reduction in friction in order to cut down on maintenance and start-up speed (i.e. getting the wings to start moving and thus produce electricity at a lower wind-speed).
Unfortunately it may have been a bit early to put it down as a functional invention at the time, at least according to the Wikipedia entry, though it does come with a "citation needed" for the claim of a hoax.
15 hours a year... sounds about right. That's 45 hours over a 3 year period. For an iMac the AppleCare Protection Plan (service and support for 3 years) is 169 US$. At 45 hours that comes down to less than 4$ an hour.
And considering that this is just for support, it's really not all that bad. Especially when you can just tell them "this is why I bought you that plan, dad. You call them, and they'll help you. Hell, they'll even come around to your house and pick up your iMac for you, if it needs to be repaired."
That certainly depends on what the Sony recovery disk includes.
The OS X install DVD only installs OS X and it's base applications. There are no bundled 3rd party fluff applications etc. Only 3rd party stuff on it is drivers.
True, it is married to that particular model (i.e. the disk for a late 2009 MacBook Pro 15" is unlikely to work with a late 2008 MacBook Pro 15"), but at least you can use the bundled DVDs to get a completely clean install (including drivers though).
That being said, the full retail version of OS X 10.6 is cheap compared to Windows 7. 29 US$ (49 for 5 licences) vs 199 US$ for a single user license for Windows 7 Home Premium
And if you believe that the people showing you a warrant are wielding fake ID badges, why on Earth would you let them into your house? If they can fake an ID, what's to stop them from faking a warrant?
You mean like... china, paper, woodblock printing, gunpowder, compass, the fork, fireworks, go, maglev wind power generators, negative numbers, menus, tea, toilet paper or the toothbrush?
I mean, granted, not all of these are new things - in fact most of them are all fairly old (the maglev being the exception), but I really doubt any of us would want to go without them.
"no free blow job" A blow job from someone who sucks dicks for a living might not be as free as you think it would be~
And free tech support advice from someone who does tech support for a living, might not be as free as you think it would be? Free car maintenance advice from a mechanic might not be as free as you think it would be? Free health care advice from a medical professional might not be as free as you think it would be?
It is the same reason that the interstate commerce clause can be used to jail you for building your own automatic weapon. Because by building it yourself, you didn't buy it from a hypothetical supplier that may have been in another state./
Well... by that logic you're breaking the interstate commerce clause by not buying child pornographer from a hypothetical supplier that may have been in another state.
I can't speak for others... but when comparing what I get from free sources to what I'm willing to pay for...
I'm not willing to pay for proper spelling and grammar. You're (pretending to be) a fucking journalist - learn to write! I'm not willing to pay for regurgitations of AP etc articles.
However.
If you do follow-ups on AP articles, in-depth interviews and such - sure, I'm willing to pay. If you do your own articles (not blurbs) then yes, I'm willing to pay. If you can manage to properly source your articles - then... well, yeah, that's part of being a journalist, but apparently that's not taught in journalism school any more, so it seems we need to reward people for it.
Essentially - if you want my money, make it worth it. Not by 'special' content - just journalistic content.
I'm sure you're right in all of your statistics. Here's a question for you though:
If they cleaned up their act completely - who would make all the lovely, cheap trinkets we buy? And will they still be cheap? Will producing said trinkets still pollute as much as it does in China, now that production has moved to some other country, where they don't give a rats ass about pollution either, just so we can get our trinkets at $1.99 for 10,000 instead of $2.01 (marked up to $19.99 a piece of course)?
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That wasn't the point that was brought up.
The point that was brought up was one of size and population density. Grand parent used Texas and Germany to sway the numbers in his favour. I made a counter example with California and Sweden to sway the numbers in the other direction.
Neither the grand parent or I used any kind of subsidy as part of the argument.
And Sweden is larger than California (449,964 km^2 vs 423,970 km^2), but only has a third of the population of California (9.3 million vs 36.9 million).
What are you smoking, that makes you believe that California couldn't sustain as extensive a train network as Sweden?
They have more choices than those two. For one they could choose to turn off the TV, sit down with their kids and just beating them.
Or put the kids into a school that can actually handle kids with actual issues.
Or home school the kids.
Or possibly find other solutions that I haven't thought of.
Claiming that parents only have two choices is as incorrect as adding a third one called "drowning them in the local river".
Nice try, but while "Newman" was indeed trying to make diversions, he wasn't stupid enough to close the T-Rex and Raptor containment fences. He was stupid enough, however, not to read up one which species were meat eaters, which is why he ended up getting attacked by that slime spewing one.
What an interesting idea.
So, if country kills women for having sex outside of marriage, but doesn't punish the male because of the lack of witnesses (and women do not count) - that is justice, simply because it is codified in their law?
Suppose another country has made it an offence punishable by death to sing a song, but you only get a stern warning if you violently assault someone? Is that also justice?
Ask yourself this - in what way could it possibly be worse than a regular harddrive?
how does it crash? HDD: Painfully and irrevocably. SSD: Read only
Does it crash in such a way that the RAID you are using keeps its integrity? Depends on how you configured your RAID. In what way could it possibly fail that would make it worse than an HDD failing?
When your hard drive fails, you've just lost all its data, unless you're willing to pay a ton of money for recovery. With an HDD, ALL data is lost. With an SSD only new data after the failure is lost.
If you're running RAID0 on your important array, you're an idiot to begin with, and you deserve what you get.
And when you look at the performance difference between a massive SAS drive and a single SSD, there's hardly any reason to use RAID for SSD, as you can often replace 8 HDDs with a single SSD, when all you need is IO.
What towers? Do you mean the World Trade Center?
First of all, they weren't blown up - they collapsed after two hijacked air planes were crashed into them. Saying "blown up" conjures up a picture of either a bombing raid or demolition attempt, neither of which were the method used.
Secondly, the Taliban are an Afghani group. How many Afghans were involved in the hijacking of those planes? None of the hijackers were Afghanis, and no verifiable information has been given to indicate, that the Taliban were involved in the planning.
You seem to have somehow mixed a strange web of misinformation together. The towers were blown up (sounds like the "CIA arranged controlled demolition" conspiracy theory) by the Taliban (sounds like the "hijackers were from either Afghanistan or Iraq" nonsense that quite a lot of Americans believe in).
Yet you realize that the US did a lot of funding for the Taliban during the USSR occupation. True, but those resources weren't used to attack the US - they were (and are being) used to fight the foreign troops (now and then) in Afghanistan.
That looks more like Dutch than Swedish.
But then again, the Swedish Chef also sounds a lot more like he's speaking Dutch than Swedish
Well, if you live in the land of the free, you're only a first shot away from fixing that problem ...
Actually, failing to follow the defined rules makes communication harder if not impossible. For several different reasons.
1) Non-fluent non-native speakers/readers - these will have difficulties figuring out, just what the hell you're trying to say
2) Deaf people who've never heard words pronounced. They cannot just 'read out' a sentence to try to coax meaning out of something that makes no sense.
I even come packing with a great example. I read the following sentence in a short story, posted somewhere on the internet:
Now, you and I can figure out what this is supposed to be.
Now imagine that you are deaf. You have no idea what words are heterographs. Some things are somewhat obvious, though you cannot be sure, as the context is non-nonsensical.
This is fairly likely to be correct, as 'threw a widow' (i.e. forcibly moved a widow in such a fashion, that her feet left the ground) makes it unlikely that we're talking about the Kind Henry VIII
But it still makes absolutely no sense, if you do know not the correct pronunciation of the words - meaning you cannot communicate that sentence to deaf people who have never heard the language spoken nor to people who aren't fluent in English.
Hell, even if you speak fluent English, you still have to run this past an internal and concious filter. This means that instead of reading this at your normal speed (which for me is around 90 paperback pages an hour), you have to slow way the fuck down.
Essentially you're now stuck doing 3 mph on an otherwise empty freeway, because some idiot has decided to block up all lanes along with his friends. Because, hey - they aren't in a hurry, and it's their right to use the road, so everybody else should just calm the fuck down or get off the road.
And if you don't believe the fluency part ... my father still calls Google for Goggle, and Microsoft Office for Microsoft Officy (or something like that).
You show him a headline saying "Frugal Google" and he won't ever know, that this is a rather catchy headline. He doesn't know why http://www.google.com/products used to be called Froogle. And yes, he called it Froggle.
Well, one might likewise look at your comment and conclude that nothing of value was added ...
One advantage to this is waste management.
Since you'd need to recycle EVERYTHING on an interstellar (or even interplanetary) ship, use the massive radiation to your advantage. Feed the plumbing from all the waste to the outermost layers of the ship, exposing it to as much radiation as possible, thereby killing all bacteria, viruses and other parasites.
Doing this should allow you to save space/mass, since you then don't need as advanced a water treatment plant as you'd otherwise need.
By that definition, I should be unable to type properly on an American keyboard layout, because the keys aren't in the same location as they are on a Danish one, which is what I was taught on and use almost exclusively (and have for close to 20 years).
However, if I were to change the keyboard layout to American, sure, I'd stumble a few times as I get used to the awkward location of ;:-_?()/\' etc., but usually it only takes me about two minutes to get used to it.
Put me on a German layout, and I'll find other issues, as Z and Y are swapped amongst other things, but again, it really doesn't take all that long to get right.
Or for a completely different perspective. Languages. Danish and English are only slightly related (both being Germanic languages), which means that you have different rules for grammar and sentence structure. So how come people like me can somehow speak multiple languages, when it's apparently impossible for people like you to stop using two spaces at the end of a sentence?
Are those kinds of people possibly the same people who use for an apostrophe instead of ', even when you show them that they're actually going to use even fewer keystrokes to achieve their goal AND it will make them look like less of an idiot in the process?
Are you suggesting that unlike essentially any other kind of electronics, there has been exactly 0 development with regards to oscilloscopes for the last decade? That things cost exactly the same as then, you get exactly the same features and exactly the same models?
If not - why bother pointing to an article that is close to a decade old?
No, not a MagLev train (I'm not a complete idiot). The idea is apparently to utilise the same principles for reduction in friction in order to cut down on maintenance and start-up speed (i.e. getting the wings to start moving and thus produce electricity at a lower wind-speed).
Unfortunately it may have been a bit early to put it down as a functional invention at the time, at least according to the Wikipedia entry, though it does come with a "citation needed" for the claim of a hoax.
Then you're not really letting them in because of their warrant, are you? More like the perceived threat of lethal force if you do not cooperate.
15 hours a year ... sounds about right. That's 45 hours over a 3 year period. For an iMac the AppleCare Protection Plan (service and support for 3 years) is 169 US$. At 45 hours that comes down to less than 4$ an hour.
And considering that this is just for support, it's really not all that bad. Especially when you can just tell them "this is why I bought you that plan, dad. You call them, and they'll help you. Hell, they'll even come around to your house and pick up your iMac for you, if it needs to be repaired."
That certainly depends on what the Sony recovery disk includes.
The OS X install DVD only installs OS X and it's base applications. There are no bundled 3rd party fluff applications etc. Only 3rd party stuff on it is drivers.
True, it is married to that particular model (i.e. the disk for a late 2009 MacBook Pro 15" is unlikely to work with a late 2008 MacBook Pro 15"), but at least you can use the bundled DVDs to get a completely clean install (including drivers though).
That being said, the full retail version of OS X 10.6 is cheap compared to Windows 7. 29 US$ (49 for 5 licences) vs 199 US$ for a single user license for Windows 7 Home Premium
And if you believe that the people showing you a warrant are wielding fake ID badges, why on Earth would you let them into your house? If they can fake an ID, what's to stop them from faking a warrant?
You mean like ... china, paper, woodblock printing, gunpowder, compass, the fork, fireworks, go, maglev wind power generators, negative numbers, menus, tea, toilet paper or the toothbrush?
I mean, granted, not all of these are new things - in fact most of them are all fairly old (the maglev being the exception), but I really doubt any of us would want to go without them.
I realise I'm not the sharpest spoon in the drawer, but I'm fairly certain waves do not become hurricanes ...
And free tech support advice from someone who does tech support for a living, might not be as free as you think it would be?
Free car maintenance advice from a mechanic might not be as free as you think it would be?
Free health care advice from a medical professional might not be as free as you think it would be?
I can't speak for others ... but when comparing what I get from free sources to what I'm willing to pay for ...
I'm not willing to pay for proper spelling and grammar. You're (pretending to be) a fucking journalist - learn to write!
I'm not willing to pay for regurgitations of AP etc articles.
However.
If you do follow-ups on AP articles, in-depth interviews and such - sure, I'm willing to pay. ... well, yeah, that's part of being a journalist, but apparently that's not taught in journalism school any more, so it seems we need to reward people for it.
If you do your own articles (not blurbs) then yes, I'm willing to pay.
If you can manage to properly source your articles - then
Essentially - if you want my money, make it worth it. Not by 'special' content - just journalistic content.
I'm sure you're right in all of your statistics. Here's a question for you though:
If they cleaned up their act completely - who would make all the lovely, cheap trinkets we buy? And will they still be cheap? Will producing said trinkets still pollute as much as it does in China, now that production has moved to some other country, where they don't give a rats ass about pollution either, just so we can get our trinkets at $1.99 for 10,000 instead of $2.01 (marked up to $19.99 a piece of course)?