That brings up an interesting question. It can be one of two things: If you're in prison for a crime, either the law no longer applies to you for the duration of your incarceration, or you have no rights. Which is it?
Am I reading this (924(c)) right? if you knock over a bench, you get a night at the station to sober up, but because you had a gun in your pocket, you get a minimum of 5 years?
There's some alternate US that hasn't given up it's freedoms and become a police state? I always hear the terrorists hate our freedom. On that count, I think they're winning.
I think the largest contributing factor to Hitler's rise to power and world war 2, was the Allies' actions after world war 1. The Treaty of Versailles pretty much placed all blame for WW1 on Germany, neutered them politically, and ordered them to pay 132 billion marks in war reparations. this contributed to hyperinflation in the 20s, and the cost of living skyrocketed. It's not really surprising that the people got pissed off. ironically, most of this was in order to prevent Germany starting another war.
I didn't know that. maybe you can send us some of those special interest groups? We (Canada) have the opposite problem. I watch the logging trucks come from the site, and go straight to the nearest port to be shipped to either Washington or somewhere in Asia, while our sawmills sit half abandoned.
I think a lot of US manufacturing is in intermediates. Things that are made into the things we buy, so we don't see them as much. The toy may have been made in China, but the plastic was probably made in the USA.
You're right, that was a little uncalled for. Greedy bastards are greedy bastards everywhere. I personally think the whole financial system needs to be overhauled. A stock broker buys and sells a bunch of stocks, and makes a ton of money, what actually got done? What was produced?
I agree. I didn't mean to imply that US cars were in any way bad, just that they seem to be trying to sell too many. while you can use marketing to increase demand, it's artificial. the first thing people are going to cut when things get bumpy is that new car they were thinking about.
This brings up an interesting point. I'm starting to suspect that the reason why the United States is bending over backwards of copy write lobbyists (an pressuring everyone else to do the same) is because that's rapidly becoming the only thing they have. they've gone through their natural resources, all of their manufacturing is going to China (including high tech), they've just conclusively proven that they can't be trusted with finance, their car companies were pretty much built on the assumption that they can continue to convince people to buy a new car every five years.... I suppose they'll have agriculture for a while, but it looks like their largest export will be imaginary property.
disclaimer: IANA economist, and probably have no idea what I'm talking about.
just because it isn't prefixing an SI unit doesn't mean it suddenly isn't equal to 1000. ever heard of the microfortnight and the nanoacre? do you agree that they are equal to one millionth of a fortnight and one billionth of an acre respectively?
Only in this case, it's going from the new, stupid standard to the old, sane standard. kilo has meant 1000 for 200 or 2000 years, depending who you ask.
you know, this is exactly like redefining a dozen to be 14, because you can arrange 14 eggs more densely in a cubic box than 12. but only if you're counting eggs. anything else and it's still 12.
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That brings up an interesting question. It can be one of two things: If you're in prison for a crime, either the law no longer applies to you for the duration of your incarceration, or you have no rights. Which is it?
This. This isn't about whether what Childs did was wright or wrong. This is about abuse of the law. Which is ALWAYS wrong.
Am I reading this (924(c)) right? if you knock over a bench, you get a night at the station to sober up, but because you had a gun in your pocket, you get a minimum of 5 years?
There's some alternate US that hasn't given up it's freedoms and become a police state? I always hear the terrorists hate our freedom. On that count, I think they're winning.
I think the largest contributing factor to Hitler's rise to power and world war 2, was the Allies' actions after world war 1. The Treaty of Versailles pretty much placed all blame for WW1 on Germany, neutered them politically, and ordered them to pay 132 billion marks in war reparations. this contributed to hyperinflation in the 20s, and the cost of living skyrocketed. It's not really surprising that the people got pissed off. ironically, most of this was in order to prevent Germany starting another war.
I didn't know that. maybe you can send us some of those special interest groups? We (Canada) have the opposite problem. I watch the logging trucks come from the site, and go straight to the nearest port to be shipped to either Washington or somewhere in Asia, while our sawmills sit half abandoned.
I think a lot of US manufacturing is in intermediates. Things that are made into the things we buy, so we don't see them as much. The toy may have been made in China, but the plastic was probably made in the USA.
You're right, that was a little uncalled for. Greedy bastards are greedy bastards everywhere. I personally think the whole financial system needs to be overhauled. A stock broker buys and sells a bunch of stocks, and makes a ton of money, what actually got done? What was produced?
I agree. I didn't mean to imply that US cars were in any way bad, just that they seem to be trying to sell too many. while you can use marketing to increase demand, it's artificial. the first thing people are going to cut when things get bumpy is that new car they were thinking about.
This brings up an interesting point. I'm starting to suspect that the reason why the United States is bending over backwards of copy write lobbyists (an pressuring everyone else to do the same) is because that's rapidly becoming the only thing they have. they've gone through their natural resources, all of their manufacturing is going to China (including high tech), they've just conclusively proven that they can't be trusted with finance, their car companies were pretty much built on the assumption that they can continue to convince people to buy a new car every five years.... I suppose they'll have agriculture for a while, but it looks like their largest export will be imaginary property.
disclaimer: IANA economist, and probably have no idea what I'm talking about.
At those speeds, I think it's easier to just put something in the way. Say, a cloud of shrapnel.
I'm joining the robots. I'll download them directly to my brain.
How are things like this even possible? Did someone someday decide it would be a good idea to interpret data as code?
how does evolution contradict the second law?
the human genome is about the size of a cd rom. I'd hardly call that staggering.
evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. that's abiogenesis.
I'd rather go the other way, and have a 120Mbit file. Bits are the fundamental unit of information.
actually, this is more like changing it back, after it was changed to 3.
just because it isn't prefixing an SI unit doesn't mean it suddenly isn't equal to 1000. ever heard of the microfortnight and the nanoacre? do you agree that they are equal to one millionth of a fortnight and one billionth of an acre respectively?
kilo = 2^10 is because it's easier to left/right shift 10 bits than to multiply/divide by 1000. this was important back in the... um... 60s.
Only in this case, it's going from the new, stupid standard to the old, sane standard. kilo has meant 1000 for 200 or 2000 years, depending who you ask.
there's no such thing as a quantity that is fundamentally base 2.
1024 only makes sense if you're too lazy to multiply by 1000, and just shift 10 bits to the left instead. That is the only reason.
nothing in computers is measured in base 2. or do you have a 1110100011010100101001010001000000000000 byte hard drive?
so how many should a dozen be when counting bytes?
it would be a bit better if they dropped the "bi": kibyte, mibyte and gibyte.
Not only would it have been backwards compatible with decades of history behind it...
But it wouldn't be compatible with the correct definition, which has centuries of history behind it.
you know, this is exactly like redefining a dozen to be 14, because you can arrange 14 eggs more densely in a cubic box than 12. but only if you're counting eggs. anything else and it's still 12.