You're right, but I don't think that paying off a loan early falls into the "too much cash" category the way, say stock buybacks, or just keeping loads of "cash" on hand do. That's especially true because this is a politically charged loan, and may say "not viable without government assistance" to some investors.
"I believe rules are rules and you break them, you should be punished, not rewarded." - Congratulations, you have met the requirements for German citizenship.
I was going to say "you must be a Good German", but it amounts to the same thing.
have her write a paper on the risks of experimenting with homemade explosives and what safety measures she should have taken, but didn't and how it could be done more safely next time
And maybe a week's suspension of something. What the OP overlooks is that what people object to is not her being punished for doing something stupid and potentially dangerous, but the absurd severity of the threatened punishment. Arrest, felony charges, WTF? What the "authorities" put her through is a far greater crime than anything she did.
I don't want the U.S. to invest in loan guarantees for fly by night operations that have absolutely no chance of success.
So like Goldman Sachs, AIG, Wells Fargo, Bank of America et al?
Those companies are all very solid investments as they're backed by the full faith and credit of the US government. People were worried they wouldn't pay back the TARP loans, but of course they did (by borrowing even more money from the
Federal Reserve).
When you start ignoring math, you wind up like Zimbabwe.
You do your argument no favor by citing such an extreme example. When has the US or the UK even come close to that?
A government can run a limited amount of debt for a while
What's "a while"? The last time the US government paid off all its debt was 1835.
Unlike that famous American "conservative" Dick Cheney, I am assuredly not of the "deficits don't matter" school of thought. However, I also think it's important to avoid the shortsightedness of so many accountants and MBA's, who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. The important metric for government fiscal responsibility is the debt/GDP ratio. It's a mistake to obsess over the numerator and ignore the denominator.
Wow, that's such an incoherent rant that I hardly know where to start, but I'll give it a try.
We still don't know if the ideal (with respect to humans) global average temperature of the planet is higher or lower than today
More boilerplate/spaghetti. I doubt we ever will know what the "ideal" global average temperature is. Dial up the thermostat and, if the American Mid-West becomes a desert and India looses its monsoon season, then maybe Siberia and far northern Canada will become ideal farmland. Flood low lying coastal areas like much of Florida, NYC, Silicon Valley, Bangladesh, and many others and we'll get new coastline. We might even get more continental shelf, which is good for marine life (or at least the stuff that survives the increasingly acid oceans). If a few billion people have to abandon the tropics, they might do very well in the far North (don't forget to have the countries up there issue plenty of visas). After the migrations and the resulting wars we might ultimately be better off.
a) tragedy of the commons - nobody owns the fishery, thus nobody is responsible, thus it's in each person's best interest to take as much as they can from the fishery, and then it gets destroyed, or
How could we possibly solve such a problem? I've got original idea, regulate the commons so that it isn't destroyed by overuse. Ok, that's not terribly original, it's been used for hundreds, or perhaps thousand, of years. But we might try it anyway.
How about adding Alberta to Jesusland? Bonus points if we spin off Quebec and get a pat on the back from the UN for freeing an "oppressed minority" (the Cree probably want to stay with us though, so we'll get Hydro-Quebec).
Far be it for me to defend the current government, but to be fair they're not attacking science. They're simply getting out of the science business and eschewing it for the purpose of policy formation. They're not persecuting scientists or preventing science from being done outside of government circles.
Only an incompetent fool, like a Stalin, would attack science or scientists. In the West we have an approach that's less bloody, less expensive, doesn't necessarily involve direct lies, and is vastly more effective. We just de-fund and ignore.
Science is a method not an outcome and as such is amoral. "We must reduce carbon emissions in order to reverse global warming", is not a scientific statement.
You're obviously right. Similarly "you should step off the tracks before that freight train barreling along kills you" is not a scientific statement. However "if you don't step off the tracks before that freight train arrives then you will die" is a scientific statement. Many people think the recommendation to step off the tracks is obviously, if not scientifically, a reasonable recommendation under those circumstances. Some may disagree.
You're using the boilerplate approach to denying AGW by stating a known and obvious point that applies to all scientific theories. You'd have a much more effective argument if you'd actually cite a reason why you think the AGW theory is wrong.
This crazy scientist kidnapped my cat and put it in a box!
I have a crazy cat that regularly kidnaps physicists and puts them in boxes. The cat is very skeptical of quantum mechanics though, as the physicists always wind up dead.
A curse on you and a whole bunch of stuff associated with you (whatever makes this more insulting). They say language wars are vicious, but editor wars are worse! With a little effort we can make the Wars of the Reformation look tame.
How fast? What support environment is required? What happens when the GC kicks in?
As for readability, pretty much any non-programmer would disagree with you
Non-programmers would look at either and say "gibberish".
and lots of programmers as well!
The only programmers I've ever met who disagreed were Lisp programmers.
I think it was never for readability but for those with lesser minds who can't hold too much information in their head and for those who write functions hundreds of lines long.
Complaining about people who can't hold too much information in their heads and then those who write functions hundreds of lines long is a curious contradiction.
I don't know whether you're playing or really are one of those Lisp evangelists with a funny look in their eyes (probably from looking at too many parentheses). Either way, have a good night. Maybe I'll go back to making Lisp jokes in the morning. In the meantime rms@gnu.org may be holding an evangelists meeting.
Another approach is plain text that's so blatant the eavesdropper will assume no one would be stupid enough to send it seriously. For example: kill moose and squirrel.
I just don't see Dart's use outside of Google products.
So? It's Google! By definition everything they do is wonderful, brilliant and the future. But their greatest product of all is hype, and they ship it in volume.
Yet another scripting language. Oh boy, because Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, and probably a hundred others I've never heard of just don't give you enough chaos (oops, I mean choice). Or there is some reason that Dart is the scripting language to end all scripting languages. Or it's an optimal combination of the best features of 47 other languages. Whatever.
Erie Canal locks were too narrow. Northern route would have to go through N. Atlantic and St. Lawrence Seaway. Average wave height in N. Atlantic larger than hugging coast. Also ended up 300k cheaper due to barge and tug requirements. Ends at same place...Lemont, IL. Shipping in June to beat peak hurricane months.
Why the N. Atlantic. How about hugging the Canadian coast? As you can tell, many people here want to give up their jobs in electronics and software and become shipping agents.
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And how many satellites could have been built with the $535 MILLION that the Obama Administration gave to Solyndra?
I'm not sure, but you could have built at least 7000x as many satellites for the cost of the Iraq War. Bonus points for a lot fewer Americans killed.
You're right, but I don't think that paying off a loan early falls into the "too much cash" category the way, say stock buybacks, or just keeping loads of "cash" on hand do. That's especially true because this is a politically charged loan, and may say "not viable without government assistance" to some investors.
"I believe rules are rules and you break them, you should be punished, not rewarded." - Congratulations, you have met the requirements for German citizenship.
I was going to say "you must be a Good German", but it amounts to the same thing.
have her write a paper on the risks of experimenting with homemade explosives and what safety measures she should have taken, but didn't and how it could be done more safely next time
And maybe a week's suspension of something. What the OP overlooks is that what people object to is not her being punished for doing something stupid and potentially dangerous, but the absurd severity of the threatened punishment. Arrest, felony charges, WTF? What the "authorities" put her through is a far greater crime than anything she did.
Limbaugh has more important issues to deal with
He ran out of Oxycodone again?
Tesla paying off a loan with stockholder money is an issue complicated enough not to provide any clear lesson
Reality has a bad habit of interfering with simplistic ideological "lessons".
I would benefit a lot from electric cars, but I still have range requirements so that it fulfills my basic needs, so it isn't there yet for me
A good compromise would be for a couple to have one electric car and one gasoline car.
I don't want the U.S. to invest in loan guarantees for fly by night operations that have absolutely no chance of success.
So like Goldman Sachs, AIG, Wells Fargo, Bank of America et al?
Those companies are all very solid investments as they're backed by the full faith and credit of the US government. People were worried they wouldn't pay back the TARP loans, but of course they did (by borrowing even more money from the Federal Reserve).
When you start ignoring math, you wind up like Zimbabwe.
You do your argument no favor by citing such an extreme example. When has the US or the UK even come close to that?
A government can run a limited amount of debt for a while
What's "a while"? The last time the US government paid off all its debt was 1835.
Unlike that famous American "conservative" Dick Cheney, I am assuredly not of the "deficits don't matter" school of thought. However, I also think it's important to avoid the shortsightedness of so many accountants and MBA's, who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. The important metric for government fiscal responsibility is the debt/GDP ratio. It's a mistake to obsess over the numerator and ignore the denominator.
We still don't know if the ideal (with respect to humans) global average temperature of the planet is higher or lower than today
More boilerplate/spaghetti. I doubt we ever will know what the "ideal" global average temperature is. Dial up the thermostat and, if the American Mid-West becomes a desert and India looses its monsoon season, then maybe Siberia and far northern Canada will become ideal farmland. Flood low lying coastal areas like much of Florida, NYC, Silicon Valley, Bangladesh, and many others and we'll get new coastline. We might even get more continental shelf, which is good for marine life (or at least the stuff that survives the increasingly acid oceans). If a few billion people have to abandon the tropics, they might do very well in the far North (don't forget to have the countries up there issue plenty of visas). After the migrations and the resulting wars we might ultimately be better off.
a) tragedy of the commons - nobody owns the fishery, thus nobody is responsible, thus it's in each person's best interest to take as much as they can from the fishery, and then it gets destroyed, or
How could we possibly solve such a problem? I've got original idea, regulate the commons so that it isn't destroyed by overuse. Ok, that's not terribly original, it's been used for hundreds, or perhaps thousand, of years. But we might try it anyway.
Alberta should like that.
How about adding Alberta to Jesusland? Bonus points if we spin off Quebec and get a pat on the back from the UN for freeing an "oppressed minority" (the Cree probably want to stay with us though, so we'll get Hydro-Quebec).
Far be it for me to defend the current government, but to be fair they're not attacking science. They're simply getting out of the science business and eschewing it for the purpose of policy formation. They're not persecuting scientists or preventing science from being done outside of government circles.
Only an incompetent fool, like a Stalin, would attack science or scientists. In the West we have an approach that's less bloody, less expensive, doesn't necessarily involve direct lies, and is vastly more effective. We just de-fund and ignore.
Science is a method not an outcome and as such is amoral. "We must reduce carbon emissions in order to reverse global warming", is not a scientific statement.
You're obviously right. Similarly "you should step off the tracks before that freight train barreling along kills you" is not a scientific statement. However "if you don't step off the tracks before that freight train arrives then you will die" is a scientific statement. Many people think the recommendation to step off the tracks is obviously, if not scientifically, a reasonable recommendation under those circumstances. Some may disagree.
You're using the boilerplate approach to denying AGW by stating a known and obvious point that applies to all scientific theories. You'd have a much more effective argument if you'd actually cite a reason why you think the AGW theory is wrong.
This crazy scientist kidnapped my cat and put it in a box!
I have a crazy cat that regularly kidnaps physicists and puts them in boxes. The cat is very skeptical of quantum mechanics though, as the physicists always wind up dead.
Splurge for a Huawei. The PLA knows what it's doing.
you should give vi or vim a try
A curse on you and a whole bunch of stuff associated with you (whatever makes this more insulting). They say language wars are vicious, but editor wars are worse! With a little effort we can make the Wars of the Reformation look tame.
lisp? It's really good at twiddling bits
How fast? What support environment is required? What happens when the GC kicks in?
As for readability, pretty much any non-programmer would disagree with you
Non-programmers would look at either and say "gibberish".
and lots of programmers as well!
The only programmers I've ever met who disagreed were Lisp programmers.
I think it was never for readability but for those with lesser minds who can't hold too much information in their head and for those who write functions hundreds of lines long.
Complaining about people who can't hold too much information in their heads and then those who write functions hundreds of lines long is a curious contradiction.
I don't know whether you're playing or really are one of those Lisp evangelists with a funny look in their eyes (probably from looking at too many parentheses). Either way, have a good night. Maybe I'll go back to making Lisp jokes in the morning. In the meantime rms@gnu.org may be holding an evangelists meeting.
I switched editors and ctrl, shift, and alt tabs vanished. Later I realized I'd just worn off the symbols on the keys
As a long time user, I can tell you that a real Emacs man can find those keys in the dark.
Steganography plus photos of the "kids".
Another approach is plain text that's so blatant the eavesdropper will assume no one would be stupid enough to send it seriously. For example: kill moose and squirrel.
I think the car was named after the Delta Dart, which is way cooler than any car or programming language.
I use to write Lisp, but I wore out the parentheses keys.
I just don't see Dart's use outside of Google products.
So? It's Google! By definition everything they do is wonderful, brilliant and the future. But their greatest product of all is hype, and they ship it in volume.
more restrictions and unnecessary syntax
I like syntax. It helps human beings read code. It was never intended for anything else.
BTW, what language is going to evolve back to Lisp and be usable for writing OS kernels, drivers and other such primitives?
Yet another scripting language. Oh boy, because Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, and probably a hundred others I've never heard of just don't give you enough chaos (oops, I mean choice). Or there is some reason that Dart is the scripting language to end all scripting languages. Or it's an optimal combination of the best features of 47 other languages. Whatever.
Erie Canal locks were too narrow. Northern route would have to go through N. Atlantic and St. Lawrence Seaway. Average wave height in N. Atlantic larger than hugging coast. Also ended up 300k cheaper due to barge and tug requirements. Ends at same place...Lemont, IL. Shipping in June to beat peak hurricane months.
Why the N. Atlantic. How about hugging the Canadian coast? As you can tell, many people here want to give up their jobs in electronics and software and become shipping agents.