The problem with that one is that it scales UP; it used to take 98% of my CPU then I got dual core and now it uses 99%. I bet if I get one of the new 8 cores it will round up to taking all 100%. Cursed thing!
If you're concerned about flying through an ash cloud and don't want to "risk it" (even though there is likely little or no actual risk to you), then don't buy the damn ticket and don't get on the damn plane.
Where have you been for the last 50 years of ever increasing liability lawsuits? Even if you could get all of the people on board to make a statement about acceptable risk then in the off chance of a crash the survivors would sue that the risks weren't actually made clear to them and the families of the dead would sue that they weren't willing to take the risk of losing that person. Personal responsibility = dream on. In light of this trend, I think if the airlines are willing to start the flights again then it's probably OK. KLM, BA, etc, These aren't some disount airlines in third world countries. They manage risk quite well.
That's exactly why bulletproof vests have metal plates in them; to help spread the energy. And ribs still get broken. That's why the hope is to make lightweight vehicles, not better bulletproof-wear.
Decreases in federal spending leave more money in the pool that states can tap.
First, dude, you are tripping out of your mind if you think the federal government would do anything other than spend the money on expanded social programs if military spending were cut. See: 199x's, Clinton era peace dividend. Hardly any of that went to education.
Second, I take the position that no level of government is entitled to a 'pool' of private citizens' money. If, in some bizarro world, they cut spending then taxes should be cut accordingly, not shifted elsewhere.
As throwing more money at the military-industrial complex
It's a flase dichotomy; schools are financed at the local and state level while the military is financed at the federal level. Total spending by states on subsidized health care and transfer payments is double what is spent on education (click on the 'state' tab). How about less subsidizing the use of hospital emergency rooms as primary care physicians? That's a much better comparison than "military-industrial complex" spending.
Pirates are offering much more convenient non-DRM files, and they are winning in the Chinese market. In order to compete
They are winning so well that Chinese consumers now expect it. I was in Beijing last year and at the major electronics mall it wasn't possible to find a something that DIDN'T already have a bunch of copied games and movies loaded onto it, even at the brand name booths.
Car companies aren't allowed to tell you that you'll get 400mpg, and then put in the fine print that it will only happen if you are coasting down a hill with the engine off
Sorry, wrong comparison, and car companies do what this article is about all the time. They'll lease a car to you for $y that can go a hundred thousand miles if you drive 24/7. But if you go over x miles per year then you have to pay extra.
So, when you jump in the air the Earth rotates under you? Yeah, I didn't think so
What an extremely funny comment - obviously you've never taken a long flight. Take off from San Francisco in the morning and go to somewhere in SE Asia on a commercial airliner and the sun will be up the whole way thanks to the plane's speed. BA a few times had "new year's eve around the world" flights because the Concorde was faster than the Earth's rotation with time to spare for refueling.
That's what the GP was wondering about, not you hopping in place, silly. Still, at 70mph, this solar plane doesn't have a chance.
no USB ports, no flash-card reader...these are things that would be very trivial to add from both a cost and engineering perspective, yet are still lacking
Because adding those things would prevent it from being smooth and sleek. Jobs hates ports on devices for aesthetic reasons and he has final say on design. Thus, Apple products have the bare minimum needed for the device to function. Didn't you ever wonder why so many Apple products have the batteries are sealed inside? If a battery compartment door would spoil the lines, you're dreaming if you expect something as hideous as a USB port.
it's quadruple taxed: the products and services that the company sells are taxed too
Ah, but that's where the tax SHOULD be - at consumption by private individuals. That's the only place wealth exists - all these other layers of taxation exist only to hide how high taxes really are on everyone. Also, sales tax is the only tax that's extremely difficult to dodge. Try telling the person running the register that you represent an off shore holding company and see if that gets you any credit against what rang up as sales tax.
people come to blows ( or explosions ) because they have a serious disagreement
I tend to agree more with Sun Tzu in that people (and nations) come to blows when diplomacy fails. Whether or not the disagreement is serious, btw.
You seem to agree with von Clausewitz, who said that war is just a heavy handed version of diplomacy. This view has fallen out of favor since the early 1900's, but you're welcome to champion it.
There is a guy in a brightly lit room with about 30-40 computer screens
No, the guy in the high tech office can't do it because he's caucasian. The police must enlist their friend the ethnic minority person in a ratty apartment who hacks into the official networks to track the bad guy.
Make that: "economics - never the strong point of politicians or union reps"
we are pushing people who provide valuable services on the dole,' says one union leader
Government employees are net tax recipients; not wealth creators. At the margin (recognizing that not ALL government employees could be laid off) all the ones who go on to private sector jobs would be a benefit to society.
It's not awesome at all that some electronic widget can do all those things. What's awesome must be the textbook it's replacing! When I was in school I never had a textbook that did WiFi, 1080 HD, Flash, GPS, etc, etc, etc. Mine were all just paper with non-moving print on the pages.
It's not just that they'll help themselves to the tech,
after the city government sold them a 75-year land lease
The only people allowed to own land in China are the central government, and there's a clause in every lease that basically says 'lease good until x unless we need it back for any reason we dream up'. So they can just help themselves to a shiny new factory full of the latest gear if they're in a bad mood one day.
any characters they introduce will die before the events in lord of the rings or will have to come up with some reason they're insignificant for lord of the rings
How do you figure that? The intervening years are when Sauruman (& crew) kicked Sauron out of Mirkwood as the major action story line, while the character driven story line is the start of the romance between Aragorn and Arwen. That's good for several major repeat characters and an interesting story if written well.
A lot more - between his crackpot economic policies (The Great Leap Forward) and paranoid purges (The Cultural Revolution), Mao can take the credit for between 20 and 46 million deaths. Note that exact records were not kept but these are the best estimates range.
Actually, I just made a wild guess at the bill rate that IBM charges based on consulting rates in the US. But whatever it is, I'm sure it's more than $6.25.
PS - One correction, I should have said I had to make CA minimum wage (not US min) since the client they wanted to send me to was in the Los Angeles area.
And who would enforce proper disclosure of this info? The government
Excellent - just the sort thing government should be involved in. Enforcing the (implied) contract between two private parties; not telling them what to do but just facilitating that both know what's going on and can rely on the information available. How wonderful if there were more of the latter and less of the former.
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is always using 99% of my CPU
The problem with that one is that it scales UP; it used to take 98% of my CPU then I got dual core and now it uses 99%. I bet if I get one of the new 8 cores it will round up to taking all 100%. Cursed thing!
If you're concerned about flying through an ash cloud and don't want to "risk it" (even though there is likely little or no actual risk to you), then don't buy the damn ticket and don't get on the damn plane.
Where have you been for the last 50 years of ever increasing liability lawsuits? Even if you could get all of the people on board to make a statement about acceptable risk then in the off chance of a crash the survivors would sue that the risks weren't actually made clear to them and the families of the dead would sue that they weren't willing to take the risk of losing that person. Personal responsibility = dream on. In light of this trend, I think if the airlines are willing to start the flights again then it's probably OK. KLM, BA, etc, These aren't some disount airlines in third world countries. They manage risk quite well.
That's exactly why bulletproof vests have metal plates in them; to help spread the energy. And ribs still get broken. That's why the hope is to make lightweight vehicles, not better bulletproof-wear.
Decreases in federal spending leave more money in the pool that states can tap.
First, dude, you are tripping out of your mind if you think the federal government would do anything other than spend the money on expanded social programs if military spending were cut. See: 199x's, Clinton era peace dividend. Hardly any of that went to education.
Second, I take the position that no level of government is entitled to a 'pool' of private citizens' money. If, in some bizarro world, they cut spending then taxes should be cut accordingly, not shifted elsewhere.
As throwing more money at the military-industrial complex
It's a flase dichotomy; schools are financed at the local and state level while the military is financed at the federal level. Total spending by states on subsidized health care and transfer payments is double what is spent on education (click on the 'state' tab). How about less subsidizing the use of hospital emergency rooms as primary care physicians? That's a much better comparison than "military-industrial complex" spending.
Pirates are offering much more convenient non-DRM files, and they are winning in the Chinese market. In order to compete
They are winning so well that Chinese consumers now expect it. I was in Beijing last year and at the major electronics mall it wasn't possible to find a something that DIDN'T already have a bunch of copied games and movies loaded onto it, even at the brand name booths.
Car companies aren't allowed to tell you that you'll get 400mpg, and then put in the fine print that it will only happen if you are coasting down a hill with the engine off
Sorry, wrong comparison, and car companies do what this article is about all the time. They'll lease a car to you for $y that can go a hundred thousand miles if you drive 24/7. But if you go over x miles per year then you have to pay extra.
So, when you jump in the air the Earth rotates under you? Yeah, I didn't think so
What an extremely funny comment - obviously you've never taken a long flight. Take off from San Francisco in the morning and go to somewhere in SE Asia on a commercial airliner and the sun will be up the whole way thanks to the plane's speed. BA a few times had "new year's eve around the world" flights because the Concorde was faster than the Earth's rotation with time to spare for refueling.
That's what the GP was wondering about, not you hopping in place, silly. Still, at 70mph, this solar plane doesn't have a chance.
no USB ports, no flash-card reader...these are things that would be very trivial to add from both a cost and engineering perspective, yet are still lacking
Because adding those things would prevent it from being smooth and sleek. Jobs hates ports on devices for aesthetic reasons and he has final say on design. Thus, Apple products have the bare minimum needed for the device to function. Didn't you ever wonder why so many Apple products have the batteries are sealed inside? If a battery compartment door would spoil the lines, you're dreaming if you expect something as hideous as a USB port.
it's quadruple taxed: the products and services that the company sells are taxed too
Ah, but that's where the tax SHOULD be - at consumption by private individuals. That's the only place wealth exists - all these other layers of taxation exist only to hide how high taxes really are on everyone. Also, sales tax is the only tax that's extremely difficult to dodge. Try telling the person running the register that you represent an off shore holding company and see if that gets you any credit against what rang up as sales tax.
Most corps are subject to double taxation, where the earnings are taxed as income and then the dividends that flow to the shareholders are also taxed
It's triple taxed because before the shareholders could buy their shares they went to work and had their income taxed.
people come to blows ( or explosions ) because they have a serious disagreement
I tend to agree more with Sun Tzu in that people (and nations) come to blows when diplomacy fails. Whether or not the disagreement is serious, btw.
You seem to agree with von Clausewitz, who said that war is just a heavy handed version of diplomacy. This view has fallen out of favor since the early 1900's, but you're welcome to champion it.
It's only alliteration if the consonant sounds are the same.
communist, libertarian, atheist, gun-clinging fundamentalist Christian, or Irish?
This is a false dichotomy - it's possible I just might be an Irish communist, libertarian, atheist, gun-clinging fundamentalist Christian.
There is a guy in a brightly lit room with about 30-40 computer screens
No, the guy in the high tech office can't do it because he's caucasian. The police must enlist their friend the ethnic minority person in a ratty apartment who hacks into the official networks to track the bad guy.
Government reinstating a nationalized Geocities
Sweet - I'll move to the UK if I can get my official government webpage customized in the 'OMG Ponies' theme.
Make that: "economics - never the strong point of politicians or union reps"
we are pushing people who provide valuable services on the dole,' says one union leader
Government employees are net tax recipients; not wealth creators. At the margin (recognizing that not ALL government employees could be laid off) all the ones who go on to private sector jobs would be a benefit to society.
?
It's not awesome at all that some electronic widget can do all those things. What's awesome must be the textbook it's replacing! When I was in school I never had a textbook that did WiFi, 1080 HD, Flash, GPS, etc, etc, etc. Mine were all just paper with non-moving print on the pages.
Wait until the Chinese steal your tech
It's not just that they'll help themselves to the tech,
after the city government sold them a 75-year land lease
The only people allowed to own land in China are the central government, and there's a clause in every lease that basically says 'lease good until x unless we need it back for any reason we dream up'. So they can just help themselves to a shiny new factory full of the latest gear if they're in a bad mood one day.
any characters they introduce will die before the events in lord of the rings or will have to come up with some reason they're insignificant for lord of the rings
How do you figure that? The intervening years are when Sauruman (& crew) kicked Sauron out of Mirkwood as the major action story line, while the character driven story line is the start of the romance between Aragorn and Arwen. That's good for several major repeat characters and an interesting story if written well.
I haven't paid for a premium membership in years
I've heard another of their scam-lite routines is to make it darn near impossible to unsubscribe. Did you have any trouble getting out?
If you are a US citizen as you claimed to be, you would not have required a visa (L or whatever) to work in US
Duh, no kidding; That was exactly why they wouldn't hire me - they couldn't send me to the US on a visa to get around minimum wage.
did mao kill more than 10 million chinese ?
A lot more - between his crackpot economic policies (The Great Leap Forward) and paranoid purges (The Cultural Revolution), Mao can take the credit for between 20 and 46 million deaths. Note that exact records were not kept but these are the best estimates range.
Because what you say is absolutely true
Actually, I just made a wild guess at the bill rate that IBM charges based on consulting rates in the US. But whatever it is, I'm sure it's more than $6.25.
PS - One correction, I should have said I had to make CA minimum wage (not US min) since the client they wanted to send me to was in the Los Angeles area.
And who would enforce proper disclosure of this info?
The government
Excellent - just the sort thing government should be involved in. Enforcing the (implied) contract between two private parties; not telling them what to do but just facilitating that both know what's going on and can rely on the information available. How wonderful if there were more of the latter and less of the former.