Really? So I can upgrade my C64 from 160x200 to 1280x1020 resolution, if I just type in the right software?
Um, of course you can. While I don't work with screens quite that small, I regularly display images on a 1680x1050 screen that are 2000x2000 or higher. This is done by either scaling the image, or only displaying a portion of it on the screen at any given time.
"See? See? Hardware limitations! I'm still right!"
Question, what exactly does a monitor have to do with the processing going on in the CPU?
And yes, I checked the time stamps.
Question asked: Saturday August 14, @04:41PM
Question answered: Saturday August 14, @04:53PM (a mere 12 minutes later)
Question re-asked: Sunday August 15, @11:23AM
Hmm, nope, you still sound like you're arguing against the concept of government. You really should work on making it sound as if you still acknowledge the requirement for limited government or else corporations would become just as bad, if not worse, without anyone to keep them in check. I know you know they would, you've already said as much.
>>>So how many people died in coal mines?
In the last 100 years? Just a few hundred in the US (because of [government] safety requirements).
Until you manage to rephrase your argument, might I suggest a disclaimer before the argument? Something that very bluntly states "I'm not saying to get rid of government. Just that, like any group that holds power over others, that power needs limitations."
Now you want to do something with that 9, but instead of starting in a new location, you just continue right below the 9, so you get something that looks like this:
4
+3
+2
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9
+2
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11
4 + 3 + 2 = (9) + 2 = 11 could be viewed as a sort of horizontal display of what I just did vertically.
When you put it that way, perhaps discrete was what they meant? As in, "we have removed this sign for some separate and distinct reason other than the FBI having been here. No, really! >.>;".
Why does everyone I talk to think in black-and-white?
We don't, you just phrased your argument like you were talking in black-and-white. If you'd actually bothered to read my post, most of it was about a specific government, namely ours (the US government).
As for citation, it's pretty easy to add up the numbers
Again, if you'd bothered to read my post, you'd see my original question about "how are you getting this number" was about the assumption that you were talking about a specific government, ours. When I realized you were talking about the concept of government, I saw how you got that number. You'd also have noticed, if you'd bothered to read my post, that I even stated I saw how you got that number. 40 million + 50 million + 15 million is 105 million, which is greater than 100 million. I didn't include the +'s or the final sum because I figured you were smart enough to see where I was leading with that final paragraph. Of course, when you don't even bother to read the post, the point is moot.
Also I find it odd you would compare an *accident* in a coal mine, to the government's willful extermination of its own citizens
We aren't. HeckRuler, I believe, was comparing deaths that occurred because there were no government regulations against government executions.
You, on the other hand, are comparing deaths from accidents that occurred despitegovernment regulation with executions that that same government carried out. That doesn't even make sense. It's like you're trying to say "without government, those >100,000,000 would not have been killed, and the mining death toll would remain the same", completely forgetting just a paragraph before, you'd admitted that without government, the mining death toll would be much higher.
People who stay behind and CHOOSE to do dangerous work [...] chose that fate and the consequences.
It's a dirty and dangerous job for sure, but somebody has to do it. And I for one have much respect for the men and women who risk their lives to do the jobs that keep society functioning (no, I'm not Mike Rowe:P). But that has absolutely nothing to do with the current discussion. I'm not 100% certain I want to take this angle, but society benefits from their labor, so mining deaths most certainly do factor in here.
I'm also real curious where you're getting that >100,000,000 number from. I cannot find a good source for an actual total executions across the entire US for anything further back than 1976, but Texas is supposed to be the most execution-happy state, right? So lets go with the count of executions there since 1819, 1213, and just multiply that by 50. That gives us 60,650, no where near the >100,000,000 you're claiming.
Or wait.. you must be attacking the concept of government rather than a specific implementation Yeah, 40 million.. 50 million.. 15 million... yeah that must be how you got the >100,000,000 number. But then that means you are arguing that lack of government is better than government. Which just makes your post make even less sense.
But how much you pay in taxes is connected to how much you have to spend on your mortgage and Comcast bill. I know it's a ludicrous idea, but perhaps GP meant that if tax dollars were not going to NASA, GP would be taxed less and so have more to spend on that mortgage and Comcast bill.
Speeding in excess of what current road conditions say is appropriate and then bragging about it is unacceptable. That's willfully risking the lives of other people. "Speeding" and then bragging about it just gets you in trouble with the law.
This is just something I heard long ago, so it could be completely fictitious, but reminds me of something that was said of unleaded gasoline. Unleaded gasoline will always be more expensive than leaded because it needs to go through an extra step to make it unleaded. But then after a time, to make leaded gasoline the companies went the route of putting unleaded through another extra process to put the lead back in! So leaded then became more expensive than unleaded.
Again, this could be completely fictitious. I'm also not saying it's even similar to what you're saying (going through an extra process to remove those $3k components? idk), it's just something I was reminded of.
In a direct democracy, no. But we don't have a direct democracy, we have a representative democracy. And the critters we vote into office are, in theory, supposed to be that "better informed, fully empowered parent" as you put it.
(1) That's unconstitutional. The New York Constitution does not grant such a power as "price fixing".
Citation needed. A cursory glance through the New York Constitution appears to not indicate a requirement for the state constitution to grant the power, but maybe I skimmed over that part.
I was making the point that, given the choice between playing a game on the 32 color Sega Game Gear or a 4 color Nintendo Gameboy, the Gameboy version of the game sucked.
Don't get me wrong. I didn't mean to say that you're wrong to dislike games that have few colors. I'm just saying that "it sucks" is in the eye of the beholder. I do not have knowledge of 80's PC/Mac game successes, but no one can deny that Nintendo's Gameboy dominated the handheld market, so I chose that as my reference.
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Really? So I can upgrade my C64 from 160x200 to 1280x1020 resolution, if I just type in the right software?
Um, of course you can. While I don't work with screens quite that small, I regularly display images on a 1680x1050 screen that are 2000x2000 or higher. This is done by either scaling the image, or only displaying a portion of it on the screen at any given time.
"See? See? Hardware limitations! I'm still right!"
Question, what exactly does a monitor have to do with the processing going on in the CPU?
You're wasting your breath. They asked the same question yesterday, and apparently ignored everyone's responses.
I'm curious, why did you feel the need to ask that question again when it was already answered the first time?
And yes, I checked the time stamps.
Question asked: Saturday August 14, @04:41PM
Question answered: Saturday August 14, @04:53PM (a mere 12 minutes later)
Question re-asked: Sunday August 15, @11:23AM
>>>So how many people died in coal mines?
In the last 100 years? Just a few hundred in the US (because of [government] safety requirements).
Until you manage to rephrase your argument, might I suggest a disclaimer before the argument? Something that very bluntly states "I'm not saying to get rid of government. Just that, like any group that holds power over others, that power needs limitations."
Have you done research
Don't need to, it already exists.
Gotcha, thanks for that clarification.
Haven't you ever done anything like this?
4
+3
+2
----
9
Now you want to do something with that 9, but instead of starting in a new location, you just continue right below the 9, so you get something that looks like this:
4
+3
+2
----
9
+2
----
11
4 + 3 + 2 = (9) + 2 = 11 could be viewed as a sort of horizontal display of what I just did vertically.
When you put it that way, perhaps discrete was what they meant? As in, "we have removed this sign for some separate and distinct reason other than the FBI having been here. No, really! >.>;".
I did not mean to imply the United States is still part of the Commonwealth.
I talk in English myself.
The entire British Commonwealth uses Celsius.
So... you meant to imply that we don't speak English in the US? Or what?
Why does everyone I talk to think in black-and-white?
We don't, you just phrased your argument like you were talking in black-and-white. If you'd actually bothered to read my post, most of it was about a specific government, namely ours (the US government).
As for citation, it's pretty easy to add up the numbers
Again, if you'd bothered to read my post, you'd see my original question about "how are you getting this number" was about the assumption that you were talking about a specific government, ours. When I realized you were talking about the concept of government, I saw how you got that number. You'd also have noticed, if you'd bothered to read my post, that I even stated I saw how you got that number. 40 million + 50 million + 15 million is 105 million, which is greater than 100 million. I didn't include the +'s or the final sum because I figured you were smart enough to see where I was leading with that final paragraph. Of course, when you don't even bother to read the post, the point is moot.
Well that explains it, didn't realize it was in a residential neighborhood. Thanks :)
Also I find it odd you would compare an *accident* in a coal mine, to the government's willful extermination of its own citizens
We aren't. HeckRuler, I believe, was comparing deaths that occurred because there were no government regulations against government executions.
You, on the other hand, are comparing deaths from accidents that occurred despite government regulation with executions that that same government carried out. That doesn't even make sense. It's like you're trying to say "without government, those >100,000,000 would not have been killed, and the mining death toll would remain the same", completely forgetting just a paragraph before, you'd admitted that without government, the mining death toll would be much higher.
People who stay behind and CHOOSE to do dangerous work [...] chose that fate and the consequences.
It's a dirty and dangerous job for sure, but somebody has to do it. And I for one have much respect for the men and women who risk their lives to do the jobs that keep society functioning (no, I'm not Mike Rowe :P). But that has absolutely nothing to do with the current discussion. I'm not 100% certain I want to take this angle, but society benefits from their labor, so mining deaths most certainly do factor in here.
I'm also real curious where you're getting that >100,000,000 number from. I cannot find a good source for an actual total executions across the entire US for anything further back than 1976, but Texas is supposed to be the most execution-happy state, right? So lets go with the count of executions there since 1819, 1213, and just multiply that by 50. That gives us 60,650, no where near the >100,000,000 you're claiming.
Or wait.. you must be attacking the concept of government rather than a specific implementation Yeah, 40 million.. 50 million.. 15 million... yeah that must be how you got the >100,000,000 number. But then that means you are arguing that lack of government is better than government. Which just makes your post make even less sense.
Portugal produces such a tiny percentage of the energy it consumes [...] it's importing huge amounts of power
The results are here. It used to be a heavy energy importer, but now it exports it.
Are you saying TFS is lying? It wouldn't be the first time, but I just want to make sure I understand what you are saying.
But how much you pay in taxes is connected to how much you have to spend on your mortgage and Comcast bill. I know it's a ludicrous idea, but perhaps GP meant that if tax dollars were not going to NASA, GP would be taxed less and so have more to spend on that mortgage and Comcast bill.
Speeding in excess of what current road conditions say is appropriate and then bragging about it is unacceptable. That's willfully risking the lives of other people. "Speeding" and then bragging about it just gets you in trouble with the law.
FTFY, but no, I do not know which the person did.
This is just something I heard long ago, so it could be completely fictitious, but reminds me of something that was said of unleaded gasoline. Unleaded gasoline will always be more expensive than leaded because it needs to go through an extra step to make it unleaded. But then after a time, to make leaded gasoline the companies went the route of putting unleaded through another extra process to put the lead back in! So leaded then became more expensive than unleaded.
Again, this could be completely fictitious. I'm also not saying it's even similar to what you're saying (going through an extra process to remove those $3k components? idk), it's just something I was reminded of.
In a direct democracy, no. But we don't have a direct democracy, we have a representative democracy. And the critters we vote into office are, in theory, supposed to be that "better informed, fully empowered parent" as you put it.
In theory.
What's the point of favoring one party over another if corporate interests have bought both their souls?
Please stop spreading the lie that people must choose between a critter with a D by their name and a critter with an R by their name.
I think you've got the wrong bill #.
HR 3961 from the 111th congress
There was no 3961 that I could find from the 110th congress, but here's HR 3961 from the 109th congress.
I'd post the actual Patriot Act renewal bill, but I cannot seem to find it.
(1) That's unconstitutional. The New York Constitution does not grant such a power as "price fixing".
Citation needed. A cursory glance through the New York Constitution appears to not indicate a requirement for the state constitution to grant the power, but maybe I skimmed over that part.
I was making the point that, given the choice between playing a game on the 32 color Sega Game Gear or a 4 color Nintendo Gameboy, the Gameboy version of the game sucked.
Don't get me wrong. I didn't mean to say that you're wrong to dislike games that have few colors. I'm just saying that "it sucks" is in the eye of the beholder. I do not have knowledge of 80's PC/Mac game successes, but no one can deny that Nintendo's Gameboy dominated the handheld market, so I chose that as my reference.
Mac and PC games in the 80s sucked because of the lack of colors (or sound).
Lack of colors means that games suck? You're delusional.
Actually, in the first scenario you're only paying for the possibility of sex. :P
Until some corporation comes along and "convinces" a few congresscritters to give it to them instead.
Until I read your reply, I thought GP said socks.