The founding fathers of the US didn't live in an age of nuclear weapons, automatic guns, excessive greenhouse gas emissions, or any of the other trappings of 21st century life. It's OK to deviate from what they wanted.
It is ok, but the mechanism for that is a Constitutional Amendment. In other words, we gave the federal government the power to tax through an amendment process. That way, the -people- as a whole through the states could decide whether or not they wanted to accept the terms of a revised treaty - which is what the Constitution really is.
When you have the federal government, in any of its branches, interpret the Constitution to create new powers for itself, it is a breach of the treaty, really.
Is that, some would argue that the present "living document" and history as given in textbooks from the 1970s and later was done by a concerted left wing effort to make the country swing left.
Instead, it backfired miserably.
My 1970s textbooks in grade school and high school went out of their way to define progress as a big march to the nanny state.. and as I remember flipping through pictures of poor people doing nothing, along came Ronald Reagan, to say that, well, it was all a bunch of crap.
Propaganda for kids doesn't work, because, the truthful documents are there. The truth is this: The wingers have this much of a point: The constitution is a strict document that defines powers given to the government, not, giving people rights, and the framers did base their ideas on Locke, that, because we've all got souls, we've all got rights. But what wingers also neglect to mention is that the framers were decidedly against much of their agenda too.
The founding fathers, in particular, want a standing army or a standing military at all. Indeed, up until the 1900s, the USA was barely a 2nd rate military power and looked on European military spending as a colossal sort of stupidity.
The founding fathers envisioned no federal power to regulate drugs or marriage or anything else. They would tax whiskey, and that was about it, and that was only to pay down the debt from the revolutionary war.
Bottom line is this, if you believe in the Constitution as it is written, there may not be any federal right to entitlements making, but there's no right to having a big army or any of the stuff the right wing wants, either.
If you are that dependent on Google's "free" services, maybe you and they should start paying for them. Google does have a sales force where its "free" offerings are made available to enterprises with some additional bells and whistles and guarantees.
The engine. Takes a lot of energy to fly at Mach 1.5, you know. In fact, derivatives of jet engines are essentially how gas turbine power plants operate. On hot day, when the utility needs peak power, they turn on the jets, literally, and that's how most people get electricity above and beyond baseline coal and nuclear.
The problem with the ABL is that it is a chemical laser based system and as such it is almost already obsolete in the laboratory. Chemical lasers have huge logistical problems and can only fire so many shots, and require huge space, which is why the ABL has cost a fortune and requires a 747.
The future really belongs to the Free Electron Laser, which is making leaps and bounds. If we were to wave the mantra of intraservice rivalries around, then one should say that while the US Navy has had an awful time actually building ships, they've pretty much been whipping on the US Air Force when it comes to both aircraft and lasers and missile defense systems.
Jefferson labs has pushed a Free Electron laser to 14kw.
The big joke here is that we Americans actually had the double think of publicly asking for permission to spy on everyone. Europeans, on the other hand, have known for centuries that spying is something that you do in secret and don't ask. Thus, while we Americans are like, "uh, we can't spy on Europeans because we are not allowed", the reality is, the British, French and Swiss intelligence services probably know from data mining what I'm going to eat for lunch before I will.
Americans that want to avoid taxes, can now bank in Europe again. Soon the USA will follow suit and allow Europeans who do not wish to pay taxes to be shielded from Europe.
There's an interesting an implicit guarantee in this. By taking such steps as to certify that the software is "authentic", to some extent, Microsoft now accepts some responsibility for the state of a Windows installation.
I've been waiting for 30 years for it to balance out, and I don't believe it will any more. All it will ever be will capital moving from one country to the next and there will never be any stability or benefit to the people of the countries that have.
Man, the only thing Australia would have needed to ban would have been the third Crocodile Dundee Movie and the third Men at Work Album, and all would have been absolutely fabulous. Instead, it seems like they are banning everything but the third Men at Work album, and that's just tragic.
The Data/Sort in Excel is way better. That's hardly "advanced". The styling stuff in Office 2007 Ribbon Bar is hands down easier to deal with than the stuff in Open Office. Little things matter too, and Excel just has more of them.
This is ridiculous this has everything to do with standard of living and less to do with currency manipulations
standard of living is a joke. if you think globally than easily you can see that if a man cuts your hair in bangalore he should get paid the same as a man that cuts your hair in the usa, and he's not, because the currency conversion is wrong. If, on the other hand, you repegged 1 dollar to 1 Rs, the guy cutting your hair in bangalore would be getting paid as the same in the guy in the USA, the DBA would make the same, and trade would be fair.
If you have a lot of database stuff, Visual Studio can be much cheaper to develop for, so long as you ignore Microsoft's Architectural Group. For me, moving to Linux isn't just about saving money, really, its to break free from the corporate brain cramp that is Microsoft Architectural guidelines. Visual Studio and C# are great tools, but, if you have to use evaporate 2x as productive multiplier to do 10x as much stupid stuff, there's hardly a savings.
On the office front:
OpenOffice's spreadsheet is not even close to Office 2007 Excel. We developers can say Open Office spreadsheet is good enough, but telling that to someone who lives and breaths Excel is only for laughs.
Which trade ban? (I'm serious; the only thing I can turn up in Google is a nuclear trade ban.)
That was it actually. You couldn't import from India prior to the trade ban. Yes, Indians could come over here, but, prior to Bush lifting the ban, the likes of Microsoft couldn't open up a data center over there and offshore work to it.
Years ago you would have said that somebody who was good at adding numbers was intelligent. Now, computers can do it easily, but they are still not intelligent.
Then you would have said, well, playing chess and doing complex mathematical problems, that is intelligent. But computers can play better chess and can calculate complex math problems better than we can, and they are not intelligent.
Then you would have said, coming up new insights, finding patterns that weren't there before, seeing relationships, now that's intelligent. But computers can now with data mining and other analytical tools.
Then, you would have said, well, its the physical stuff that computers can't do, the yeoman jobs of driving trucks. But then, trucks are driving themselves now.
So, really, its not when computers will be intelligent. According to many social definitions that have existed, they are.
45 rupees to the dollar, so this guy claims he is getting a 50 cent hair cut in the US? I guess it involves a bowl or flowbee.
No, I think he was carelessly saying that a haircut in India is 20Rs and $20 USD, and therefor, the exchange rate should be 1-1. Somehow, that was supposed to prove his point that there was no currency manipulation, but I would actually think that it would prove that there is currency manipulation even more. Or, if not outright manipulation, at least that, the very idea of money being able to measurably and accurate denote the value of a service for purposes of exchanges simply cannot work across international or cultural barriers.
A Hair Cut in India is 20Rs and I pay the same in US. Going by that the currency exchange should be 1:1. Haha, you are building a long winded response without real merits.
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The founding fathers of the US didn't live in an age of nuclear weapons, automatic guns, excessive greenhouse gas emissions, or any of the other trappings of 21st century life. It's OK to deviate from what they wanted.
It is ok, but the mechanism for that is a Constitutional Amendment. In other words, we gave the federal government the power to tax through an amendment process. That way, the -people- as a whole through the states could decide whether or not they wanted to accept the terms of a revised treaty - which is what the Constitution really is.
When you have the federal government, in any of its branches, interpret the Constitution to create new powers for itself, it is a breach of the treaty, really.
Buggy assed bug-laser zapped my neighbor's dog and four year old, then blue screened and left the postman permanently blind in his left eye.
Is that religious education is often compulsory, and look at how many of them go to church : zero.
Is that, some would argue that the present "living document" and history as given in textbooks from the 1970s and later was done by a concerted left wing effort to make the country swing left.
Instead, it backfired miserably.
My 1970s textbooks in grade school and high school went out of their way to define progress as a big march to the nanny state.. and as I remember flipping through pictures of poor people doing nothing, along came Ronald Reagan, to say that, well, it was all a bunch of crap.
Propaganda for kids doesn't work, because, the truthful documents are there. The truth is this: The wingers have this much of a point: The constitution is a strict document that defines powers given to the government, not, giving people rights, and the framers did base their ideas on Locke, that, because we've all got souls, we've all got rights. But what wingers also neglect to mention is that the framers were decidedly against much of their agenda too.
The founding fathers, in particular, want a standing army or a standing military at all. Indeed, up until the 1900s, the USA was barely a 2nd rate military power and looked on European military spending as a colossal sort of stupidity.
The founding fathers envisioned no federal power to regulate drugs or marriage or anything else. They would tax whiskey, and that was about it, and that was only to pay down the debt from the revolutionary war.
Bottom line is this, if you believe in the Constitution as it is written, there may not be any federal right to entitlements making, but there's no right to having a big army or any of the stuff the right wing wants, either.
The founding fathers were libertarians.
if google would fee me lets say about 5 euro a month to use google.com I would pay
Shoot for $5 a month. 5 Euro is like, real money!
If you are that dependent on Google's "free" services, maybe you and they should start paying for them. Google does have a sales force where its "free" offerings are made available to enterprises with some additional bells and whistles and guarantees.
Certainly not from any batteries in that jet
The engine. Takes a lot of energy to fly at Mach 1.5, you know. In fact, derivatives of jet engines are essentially how gas turbine power plants operate. On hot day, when the utility needs peak power, they turn on the jets, literally, and that's how most people get electricity above and beyond baseline coal and nuclear.
The problem with the ABL is that it is a chemical laser based system and as such it is almost already obsolete in the laboratory. Chemical lasers have huge logistical problems and can only fire so many shots, and require huge space, which is why the ABL has cost a fortune and requires a 747.
The future really belongs to the Free Electron Laser, which is making leaps and bounds. If we were to wave the mantra of intraservice rivalries around, then one should say that while the US Navy has had an awful time actually building ships, they've pretty much been whipping on the US Air Force when it comes to both aircraft and lasers and missile defense systems.
Jefferson labs has pushed a Free Electron laser to 14kw.
http://www.jlab.org/fel/
And, the US Navy has Raytheon has been awarded a contract for a 100KW Free Electron Laser
http://raytheon.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=1292&pagetemplate=release
And indeed, some are noting that it will soon be possible to carry these things in the nose of a fighter aircraft, not just a 747.
The big joke here is that we Americans actually had the double think of publicly asking for permission to spy on everyone. Europeans, on the other hand, have known for centuries that spying is something that you do in secret and don't ask. Thus, while we Americans are like, "uh, we can't spy on Europeans because we are not allowed", the reality is, the British, French and Swiss intelligence services probably know from data mining what I'm going to eat for lunch before I will.
Americans that want to avoid taxes, can now bank in Europe again. Soon the USA will follow suit and allow Europeans who do not wish to pay taxes to be shielded from Europe.
There's an interesting an implicit guarantee in this. By taking such steps as to certify that the software is "authentic", to some extent, Microsoft now accepts some responsibility for the state of a Windows installation.
Here is one of several papers [csdassn.org] about the fact that Microsoft has no interest in fixing the broken nature of excel for statistical work.
Ah, but then there's always an Excel add-on that can do statistics.
globalization continues this will balance out.
I've been waiting for 30 years for it to balance out, and I don't believe it will any more. All it will ever be will capital moving from one country to the next and there will never be any stability or benefit to the people of the countries that have.
Man, the only thing Australia would have needed to ban would have been the third Crocodile Dundee Movie and the third Men at Work Album, and all would have been absolutely fabulous. Instead, it seems like they are banning everything but the third Men at Work album, and that's just tragic.
The Data/Sort in Excel is way better. That's hardly "advanced". The styling stuff in Office 2007 Ribbon Bar is hands down easier to deal with than the stuff in Open Office. Little things matter too, and Excel just has more of them.
This is ridiculous this has everything to do with standard of living and less to do with currency manipulations
standard of living is a joke. if you think globally than easily you can see that if a man cuts your hair in bangalore he should get paid the same as a man that cuts your hair in the usa, and he's not, because the currency conversion is wrong. If, on the other hand, you repegged 1 dollar to 1 Rs, the guy cutting your hair in bangalore would be getting paid as the same in the guy in the USA, the DBA would make the same, and trade would be fair.
Really, free trade is just currency arbitrage.
On the developer front:
If you have a lot of database stuff, Visual Studio can be much cheaper to develop for, so long as you ignore Microsoft's Architectural Group. For me, moving to Linux isn't just about saving money, really, its to break free from the corporate brain cramp that is Microsoft Architectural guidelines. Visual Studio and C# are great tools, but, if you have to use evaporate 2x as productive multiplier to do 10x as much stupid stuff, there's hardly a savings.
On the office front:
OpenOffice's spreadsheet is not even close to Office 2007 Excel. We developers can say Open Office spreadsheet is good enough, but telling that to someone who lives and breaths Excel is only for laughs.
Which trade ban? (I'm serious; the only thing I can turn up in Google is a nuclear trade ban.)
That was it actually. You couldn't import from India prior to the trade ban. Yes, Indians could come over here, but, prior to Bush lifting the ban, the likes of Microsoft couldn't open up a data center over there and offshore work to it.
Years ago you would have said that somebody who was good at adding numbers was intelligent. Now, computers can do it easily, but they are still not intelligent.
Then you would have said, well, playing chess and doing complex mathematical problems, that is intelligent. But computers can play better chess and can calculate complex math problems better than we can, and they are not intelligent.
Then you would have said, coming up new insights, finding patterns that weren't there before, seeing relationships, now that's intelligent. But computers can now with data mining and other analytical tools.
Then, you would have said, well, its the physical stuff that computers can't do, the yeoman jobs of driving trucks. But then, trucks are driving themselves now.
So, really, its not when computers will be intelligent. According to many social definitions that have existed, they are.
Gotta ask...why?
She's a wonderful mother, to my son, her faults are more side effects of a mental illness, and, she does her best to take care of me.
I think if you extend the experiment slightly you will also find that there is the slight issue that the FUCKING COST OF LIVING IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT.
Yes, and therefor, money is inaccurate. That is my point.
45 rupees to the dollar, so this guy claims he is getting a 50 cent hair cut in the US? I guess it involves a bowl or flowbee.
No, I think he was carelessly saying that a haircut in India is 20Rs and $20 USD, and therefor, the exchange rate should be 1-1. Somehow, that was supposed to prove his point that there was no currency manipulation, but I would actually think that it would prove that there is currency manipulation even more. Or, if not outright manipulation, at least that, the very idea of money being able to measurably and accurate denote the value of a service for purposes of exchanges simply cannot work across international or cultural barriers.
Try being married for 27 years to a serial adulteress. That's REAL pain.
I'm working on 10 here.
A Hair Cut in India is 20Rs and I pay the same in US. Going by that the currency exchange should be 1:1. Haha, you are building a long winded response without real merits.
No actually, you are making my case even more.
As a Mechanical Engineer I agree with you, I personally think we should raise NASA's budget an order of magnitude, but that's another story.
I think we should too, and take it out of the military and entitlements, if we have to. We would be more secure and have more jobs.