Also, how did the United States become the largest economy in the world and by far the most powerful nation in the world when for most of its history it didn't have the all powerful top down magic of socialism?
WE did it by being top-down socialist.
Taxpayer funded government services is what made this country great.
Great. Now how about you cough up the thousands more to actually build and maintain roads, instead of being subsidized by general taxes?
I actually do think drivers licenses should cost several thousand dollars, to pay for the roads. Right now, since roads are subsidized by government, everyone uses it and it causes traffic jams everywhere. If people actually paid for the cost of building and maintaining roads, like say through an annual $25,000 drivers license fee, there would be lot fewer drivers.
TCP/IP is what everyone else uses. If we weren't using it, we'd be using something else. It's like MP3: there were lots of competing standards, and the first one that's "good enough" will often dominate.
great so you're benefiting from standards, a service of government. Thanks for supporting the big-government views, including the safe water you drink for cheap. Sounds like you paid much less than building your own private water system.
Are you sure you don't mean "everybody" instead of "Somalians"?
Public raids the fruits of your labor because you didn't earn all the fruits of your labor on your own. The public helped you earn the fruits of your labor for you.
Just remember that the money you earn isn't yours.
FWIW, IMHO, in a true democracy there should be a legal possibility to form a new, independant state in some way. Sadly this is usually where democracy ends. On what property?
How in the world did everyone survive before 1970 when the EPA started regulating things? I
By having a much smaller economy.
Do you want to live poorer? Then be a libertarian. You get to live like a stone-aged Somalian. The rest of us will be socialist and live wealthy instead.
Libertarianism and individualism is a sign of weakness. Strength can only come from groups.
This is their entire purpose in life - to force you to pay to do anything by using their energy resources. And, they're going to do everything they can to make sure any bad news about energy consumption goes away.
Remember kids, this is why you fight the energy companies. Do everything you can to fight them back!
LOL Yah, don't EVER have any more ideas Einstein. You are not allowed to think anymore. You're just not smart enough to have ideas. Sorry.
Just stop being yourself, and follow what everyone else does. OK?
Here's something I wrote in another thread that'll help get rid of your Libertarian dumbassery: --- Government is the reason you are alive.
If it weren't for government, a polluter would have no reason to not poison your air or water supply for his profit (power).
And because they are profitable (powerful), they have the power over you to force themselves about it.
So, your government steps in and makes sure you are safe and sound, by limiting other people's powers.
Did you thank government for your protection? You should.
Taxes are the protection money we (society) force you to pay to allow you to live with us. You do not get to live in our land for free. That is because every human is territorial, and we are the rulers of the land. It doesn't matter what YOU "believe" in. What matters is whatever WE do, since the decision on taxes is not yours to make, as only those with power can make decisions, and libertarians are the weakest in society. If you don't like it, feel free to move to another country. It is why we don't charge taxes for citizens of other countries, because we (government) don't own other sovereign states. But if we did, we'd charge them protection money (taxes), because we want the benefits of wholesale purchases that governments can do but individuals cannot.
Additionally, libertarians just aren't very smart socially. This is actually their biggest flaw - their disbelief in social groups. All humans seek to gain power, including you. It is why you're here on this board promoting your views. And they form power through social groups, from families to governments. But, you actually have to curry favor to other members of society in order to form groups. A normal person offers favors to others in order to receive favors back, to grow their group of power. Libertarians assume that everyone will be nice to them and offer them services without offering people favors. Sorry, but human psychology doesn't work this way. No one owes you anything, including your human rights. You do have to be actively protect yourself, which means you have to curry favors with others, through groups (governments) in order to just exist. This isn't just a theory, it is how political science works. Groups are always stronger than individuals. Generals follow this rule in war. Sales people use the same social group theory to grow their power. Girls find guys that are more powerful to marry. And so on.
Meanwhile, the correct answer, and the answer that all of society is actually based on, is socialism. The world revolves around groups, not individuals. The statement that no man is his own island is always true. And if there single-people islands, larger groups would come in and take it over or test atom bombs on them or whatever the fuck they want to do with it. You are therefore dependent on others (government) for your own basic survival. Libertarians just don't know that yet. They're obviously not supercomputers that can model all of society in their head.
Basically Libertarians are people that just didn't think their cunning plan all the way through.
I totally get where you're coming from, but every time I talk to libertarians about their mistaken worldview they simply get mad because I don't make the same mistaken assumptions they make. No libertarian has ever walked their cunning plan all the way through to me. Ever.
Also libertarians are always the spoiled brats that do not appreciate the benefits of government. And every psychological profile of a libertarian show them to be spoiled brats.
They love themselves too much.
So, yeah, don't be libertarian. And don't have "beliefs". Ever.
No one outlawed any other network protocols. So, why are you still using TCP/IP for communications?
Can't your precious private corporations develop other protocols besides having to rely on government developed TCP/IP?
Also, did you thank government for making sure the air you breath is clean, the water you drink is safe, and everything else you take from government?
The worst people in this world are those that take things without thanking. You should become a better person and learn to thank government for the life you live. Without government babysitting you, because we socialists force government to babysit you, your life would be much worse.
You don't want to live like a Somalian, do you?
Ultimately you have to destroy your ego, which I'm happy to help you with. You have too much self esteem, which we socialists are exceedingly efficient at cutting down. But it's good, since socialism will make you stronger, since groups are stronger than individuals.
You're welcome.
(Libertarians never think their cunning plan all the way through..)
And as for libertarians, they happen to be the only poeple to have enough principle to be pissed about Bush's torture AND Obama's drone executions.
Yet, all the stupid Libertarians go apeshit about Obamacare, which was designed to cut back the 45,000 deaths annually due to lack of health insurance.
Sorry, but 45,000 American lives saved > Pakistani drone executions.
We liberals consider the drones to be the least important thing ever, because we worry about the 45,000 American lives due to lack of health insurance, which for some reason the libertarians ignore, probably because they can't process death that isn't scary.
We liberals only consider numbers, unlike the emotional libertarians that can't rationalize their beliefs.
Also, I really do want to hear your scenario on how you think you would survive without a government protecting you. Go on, in detail. It will be completely amusing.
Right. Because there have never been any polluters in the world with government. Thank god China has a large powerful government to prevent companies from polluting. Great system you've got there.
They're still able to keep 1.5 BILLION people alive, and if they want, they can kill them all, since they can do what they want.
For now I will summarize that you are 100% wrong and are a stupid thug and thief who believes might makes right
Crying about the facts of life, unfortunately, won't change the facts of life. Mature people accept the facts of life, and work around it instead.
Again, it is POWER that defines society's order, not belief, or anything else. Wishin' and hopin' isn't going to change society. You're not going to convince people to change coming from a position of weakness. (individualism).
If it weren't for government, a polluter would have no reason to not poison your air or water supply for his profit (power).
And because they are profitable (powerful), they have the power over you to force themselves about it.
So, your government steps in and makes sure you are safe and sound, by limiting other people's powers.
Did you thank government for your protection? You should.
Taxes are the protection money we (society) force you to pay to allow you to live with us. You do not get to live in our land for free. That is because every human is territorial, and we are the rulers of the land. It doesn't matter what YOU "believe" in. What matters is whatever WE do, since the decision on taxes is not yours to make, as only those with power can make decisions, and libertarians are the weakest in society. If you don't like it, feel free to move to another country. It is why we don't charge taxes for citizens of other countries, because we (government) don't own other sovereign states. But if we did, we'd charge them protection money (taxes), because we want the benefits of wholesale purchases that governments can do but individuals cannot.
Additionally, libertarians just aren't very smart socially. This is actually their biggest flaw - their disbelief in social groups. All humans seek to gain power, including you. It is why you're here on this board promoting your views. And they form power through social groups, from families to governments. But, you actually have to curry favor to other members of society in order to form groups. A normal person offers favors to others in order to receive favors back, to grow their group of power. Libertarians assume that everyone will be nice to them and offer them services without offering people favors. Sorry, but human psychology doesn't work this way. No one owes you anything, including your human rights. You do have to be actively protect yourself, which means you have to curry favors with others, through groups (governments) in order to just exist. This isn't just a theory, it is how political science works. Groups are always stronger than individuals. Generals follow this rule in war. Sales people use the same social group theory to grow their power. Girls find guys that are more powerful to marry. And so on.
Meanwhile, the correct answer, and the answer that all of society is actually based on, is socialism. The world revolves around groups, not individuals. The statement that no man is his own island is always true. And if there single-people islands, larger groups would come in and take it over or test atom bombs on them or whatever the fuck they want to do with it. You are therefore dependent on others (government) for your own basic survival. Libertarians just don't know that yet. They're obviously not supercomputers that can model all of society in their head.
Basically Libertarians are people that just didn't think their cunning plan all the way through.
I totally get where you're coming from, but every time I talk to libertarians about their mistaken worldview they simply get mad because I don't make the same mistaken assumptions they make. No libertarian has ever walked their cunning plan all the way through to me. Ever.
Also libertarians are always the spoiled brats that do not appreciate the benefits of government. And every psychological profile of a libertarian show them to be spoiled brats.
They love themselves too much.
So, yeah, don't be libertarian. And don't have "beliefs". Ever.
then they're looking to transfer copyright ownership to another private entity, instead of giving it to the public.
Remember, the GOP represents interests of monopolist business owners that seek to eliminate competition through government regulation. They do not represent interests of the public.
Then that just means you've never visited a fashion website, where all the articles are actually lightweight ads, and the actual ads are often more desirable than the articles.
Protip (that will likely blow your mind): people buy fashion magazines BECAUSE OF THE ADS.
They don't fill 800 pages of Vogue's September issue with articles. It's pretty much all ads.
The reason internet dorks hate ads is because they're fed terrible, terrible ads because of your undesirable last-place demographic. If you were fed good ads, perhaps with a naked Kate Moss, you would have absolutely no problem with ads, and in fact, would go out of your way to seek them. It is why fashion photographs often sell for thousands of dollars on their own.
Again, the fact that you hate ads just means you aren't receiving the good ones, because marketers have deemed you undesirable and unworthy of the good stuff, probably because you aren't a rich, young, beautiful woman that spends on wants instead of needs. (the worst ads are the ones that market to your needs)
Another idea is some gaming company. AMD has a somewhat-competitive graphics division, and a compute side that could handle gaming loads well with some tweaks. Sony is really the most likely - they've *never* been good at the hardware side, only lucking into success with the PS1 and PS2 after some clever business decisions. But I also doubt Sony is smart enough to try to do that, especially since buying AMD might hurt their (Intel-focused) laptop business.
Sony did end up buying Minolta for their camera business, so them buying another hardware company isn't out-of-line.
Blizzard/Activision/EA could buy AMD though, make their own consoles.
It looks like these rate are for the each groups over the entire state, at least according to my interpretation of the article? In that case, demographic factors already skews grades over entire segments, and this is recognition of that. I bet they eventually divide subgroups further - sex, wealth, geography, distance from school, class sizes, etc.
Not sure if this is right or wrong, but in my view if you want to improve an overall group, you find its strongest & weakest members, figure out why they are that way, apply fixes, and repeat in an engineering feedback loop.
Or Virginia could entirely be racist.. dunno from the article.
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1) You need thrust if you want to go anywhere.
Use wind? Hot air balloons use wind, with different directions at different altitudes.
Or have like sails on a sailboat, except on an airship?
Winds are 200mph up high.
It's a suicide mission if the intent is to kill them. It's a one-way trip if the intent is to live there.
Also, how did the United States become the largest economy in the world and by far the most powerful nation in the world when for most of its history it didn't have the all powerful top down magic of socialism?
WE did it by being top-down socialist.
Taxpayer funded government services is what made this country great.
Great. Now how about you cough up the thousands more to actually build and maintain roads, instead of being subsidized by general taxes?
I actually do think drivers licenses should cost several thousand dollars, to pay for the roads. Right now, since roads are subsidized by government, everyone uses it and it causes traffic jams everywhere. If people actually paid for the cost of building and maintaining roads, like say through an annual $25,000 drivers license fee, there would be lot fewer drivers.
Is "give" a faithful explanation of a process which may involve jail time if one doesn't agree to forfeit the resources?
It doesn't always lead to jail-time. You can be kicked out of the country.
Remember, the land you live on is ruled by the public. You still have to pay the public to live there - no freeloaders in this country.
TCP/IP is what everyone else uses. If we weren't using it, we'd be using something else. It's like MP3: there were lots of competing standards, and the first one that's "good enough" will often dominate.
great so you're benefiting from standards, a service of government. Thanks for supporting the big-government views, including the safe water you drink for cheap. Sounds like you paid much less than building your own private water system.
No, it's people like you who live like Somalians
Are you sure you don't mean "everybody" instead of "Somalians"?
Public raids the fruits of your labor because you didn't earn all the fruits of your labor on your own. The public helped you earn the fruits of your labor for you.
Just remember that the money you earn isn't yours.
FWIW, IMHO, in a true democracy there should be a legal possibility to form a new, independant state in some way. Sadly this is usually where democracy ends.
On what property?
Government is defined by the land it rules.
How in the world did everyone survive before 1970 when the EPA started regulating things? I
By having a much smaller economy.
Do you want to live poorer? Then be a libertarian. You get to live like a stone-aged Somalian. The rest of us will be socialist and live wealthy instead.
Libertarianism and individualism is a sign of weakness. Strength can only come from groups.
This is their entire purpose in life - to force you to pay to do anything by using their energy resources. And, they're going to do everything they can to make sure any bad news about energy consumption goes away.
Remember kids, this is why you fight the energy companies. Do everything you can to fight them back!
LOL Yah, don't EVER have any more ideas Einstein. You are not allowed to think anymore. You're just not smart enough to have ideas. Sorry.
Just stop being yourself, and follow what everyone else does. OK?
Here's something I wrote in another thread that'll help get rid of your Libertarian dumbassery:
---
Government is the reason you are alive.
If it weren't for government, a polluter would have no reason to not poison your air or water supply for his profit (power).
And because they are profitable (powerful), they have the power over you to force themselves about it.
So, your government steps in and makes sure you are safe and sound, by limiting other people's powers.
Did you thank government for your protection? You should.
Taxes are the protection money we (society) force you to pay to allow you to live with us. You do not get to live in our land for free. That is because every human is territorial, and we are the rulers of the land. It doesn't matter what YOU "believe" in. What matters is whatever WE do, since the decision on taxes is not yours to make, as only those with power can make decisions, and libertarians are the weakest in society. If you don't like it, feel free to move to another country. It is why we don't charge taxes for citizens of other countries, because we (government) don't own other sovereign states. But if we did, we'd charge them protection money (taxes), because we want the benefits of wholesale purchases that governments can do but individuals cannot.
Additionally, libertarians just aren't very smart socially. This is actually their biggest flaw - their disbelief in social groups. All humans seek to gain power, including you. It is why you're here on this board promoting your views. And they form power through social groups, from families to governments. But, you actually have to curry favor to other members of society in order to form groups. A normal person offers favors to others in order to receive favors back, to grow their group of power. Libertarians assume that everyone will be nice to them and offer them services without offering people favors. Sorry, but human psychology doesn't work this way. No one owes you anything, including your human rights. You do have to be actively protect yourself, which means you have to curry favors with others, through groups (governments) in order to just exist. This isn't just a theory, it is how political science works. Groups are always stronger than individuals. Generals follow this rule in war. Sales people use the same social group theory to grow their power. Girls find guys that are more powerful to marry. And so on.
Meanwhile, the correct answer, and the answer that all of society is actually based on, is socialism. The world revolves around groups, not individuals. The statement that no man is his own island is always true. And if there single-people islands, larger groups would come in and take it over or test atom bombs on them or whatever the fuck they want to do with it. You are therefore dependent on others (government) for your own basic survival. Libertarians just don't know that yet. They're obviously not supercomputers that can model all of society in their head.
Basically Libertarians are people that just didn't think their cunning plan all the way through.
I totally get where you're coming from, but every time I talk to libertarians about their mistaken worldview they simply get mad because I don't make the same mistaken assumptions they make. No libertarian has ever walked their cunning plan all the way through to me. Ever.
Also libertarians are always the spoiled brats that do not appreciate the benefits of government. And every psychological profile of a libertarian show them to be spoiled brats.
They love themselves too much.
So, yeah, don't be libertarian. And don't have "beliefs". Ever.
Oh he uses them, doesn't mean he likes to:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/libertarian-reluctantly-calls-fire-department,4651/
No one outlawed any other network protocols. So, why are you still using TCP/IP for communications?
Can't your precious private corporations develop other protocols besides having to rely on government developed TCP/IP?
Also, did you thank government for making sure the air you breath is clean, the water you drink is safe, and everything else you take from government?
The worst people in this world are those that take things without thanking. You should become a better person and learn to thank government for the life you live. Without government babysitting you, because we socialists force government to babysit you, your life would be much worse.
You don't want to live like a Somalian, do you?
Ultimately you have to destroy your ego, which I'm happy to help you with. You have too much self esteem, which we socialists are exceedingly efficient at cutting down. But it's good, since socialism will make you stronger, since groups are stronger than individuals.
You're welcome.
(Libertarians never think their cunning plan all the way through..)
. See how places like Venezuela or Cuba or China or Libya serve their citizens under that kind of democracy that you advocate.
LOL you've never actually talked with anyone from any of those countries, have you?
And as for libertarians, they happen to be the only poeple to have enough principle to be pissed about Bush's torture AND Obama's drone executions.
Yet, all the stupid Libertarians go apeshit about Obamacare, which was designed to cut back the 45,000 deaths annually due to lack of health insurance.
Sorry, but 45,000 American lives saved > Pakistani drone executions.
We liberals consider the drones to be the least important thing ever, because we worry about the 45,000 American lives due to lack of health insurance, which for some reason the libertarians ignore, probably because they can't process death that isn't scary.
We liberals only consider numbers, unlike the emotional libertarians that can't rationalize their beliefs.
supporting the Democratic party IS trying to improve the workings of the democratic system.
The only people that support the Republicans are all the dumb libertarians that believe corporations should rule the world.
Governments that represent the public interests should rule the world, not corporations that represent private interests.
Government is the reason you are alive.
No it isn't.
Also, I really do want to hear your scenario on how you think you would survive without a government protecting you. Go on, in detail. It will be completely amusing.
> Your mistake is in believing I benefit from government services. I don't.
This is delusion on a level I was not even aware existed.
These people are the worst sufferers of their ego. It is always these types that end up blowing up federal buildings.
It is important to crush their self-esteem.
But, I like the part where they post on the government-designed internet.
Right. Because there have never been any polluters in the world with government. Thank god China has a large powerful government to prevent companies from polluting. Great system you've got there.
They're still able to keep 1.5 BILLION people alive, and if they want, they can kill them all, since they can do what they want.
For now I will summarize that you are 100% wrong and are a stupid thug and thief who believes might makes right
Crying about the facts of life, unfortunately, won't change the facts of life. Mature people accept the facts of life, and work around it instead.
Again, it is POWER that defines society's order, not belief, or anything else. Wishin' and hopin' isn't going to change society. You're not going to convince people to change coming from a position of weakness. (individualism).
Government is the reason you are alive.
If it weren't for government, a polluter would have no reason to not poison your air or water supply for his profit (power).
And because they are profitable (powerful), they have the power over you to force themselves about it.
So, your government steps in and makes sure you are safe and sound, by limiting other people's powers.
Did you thank government for your protection? You should.
Taxes are the protection money we (society) force you to pay to allow you to live with us. You do not get to live in our land for free. That is because every human is territorial, and we are the rulers of the land. It doesn't matter what YOU "believe" in. What matters is whatever WE do, since the decision on taxes is not yours to make, as only those with power can make decisions, and libertarians are the weakest in society. If you don't like it, feel free to move to another country. It is why we don't charge taxes for citizens of other countries, because we (government) don't own other sovereign states. But if we did, we'd charge them protection money (taxes), because we want the benefits of wholesale purchases that governments can do but individuals cannot.
Additionally, libertarians just aren't very smart socially. This is actually their biggest flaw - their disbelief in social groups. All humans seek to gain power, including you. It is why you're here on this board promoting your views. And they form power through social groups, from families to governments. But, you actually have to curry favor to other members of society in order to form groups. A normal person offers favors to others in order to receive favors back, to grow their group of power. Libertarians assume that everyone will be nice to them and offer them services without offering people favors. Sorry, but human psychology doesn't work this way. No one owes you anything, including your human rights. You do have to be actively protect yourself, which means you have to curry favors with others, through groups (governments) in order to just exist. This isn't just a theory, it is how political science works. Groups are always stronger than individuals. Generals follow this rule in war. Sales people use the same social group theory to grow their power. Girls find guys that are more powerful to marry. And so on.
Meanwhile, the correct answer, and the answer that all of society is actually based on, is socialism. The world revolves around groups, not individuals. The statement that no man is his own island is always true. And if there single-people islands, larger groups would come in and take it over or test atom bombs on them or whatever the fuck they want to do with it. You are therefore dependent on others (government) for your own basic survival. Libertarians just don't know that yet. They're obviously not supercomputers that can model all of society in their head.
Basically Libertarians are people that just didn't think their cunning plan all the way through.
I totally get where you're coming from, but every time I talk to libertarians about their mistaken worldview they simply get mad because I don't make the same mistaken assumptions they make. No libertarian has ever walked their cunning plan all the way through to me. Ever.
Also libertarians are always the spoiled brats that do not appreciate the benefits of government. And every psychological profile of a libertarian show them to be spoiled brats.
They love themselves too much.
So, yeah, don't be libertarian. And don't have "beliefs". Ever.
then they're looking to transfer copyright ownership to another private entity, instead of giving it to the public.
Remember, the GOP represents interests of monopolist business owners that seek to eliminate competition through government regulation. They do not represent interests of the public.
Then that just means you've never visited a fashion website, where all the articles are actually lightweight ads, and the actual ads are often more desirable than the articles.
Protip (that will likely blow your mind): people buy fashion magazines BECAUSE OF THE ADS.
They don't fill 800 pages of Vogue's September issue with articles. It's pretty much all ads.
The reason internet dorks hate ads is because they're fed terrible, terrible ads because of your undesirable last-place demographic. If you were fed good ads, perhaps with a naked Kate Moss, you would have absolutely no problem with ads, and in fact, would go out of your way to seek them. It is why fashion photographs often sell for thousands of dollars on their own.
Again, the fact that you hate ads just means you aren't receiving the good ones, because marketers have deemed you undesirable and unworthy of the good stuff, probably because you aren't a rich, young, beautiful woman that spends on wants instead of needs. (the worst ads are the ones that market to your needs)
Another idea is some gaming company. AMD has a somewhat-competitive graphics division, and a compute side that could handle gaming loads well with some tweaks. Sony is really the most likely - they've *never* been good at the hardware side, only lucking into success with the PS1 and PS2 after some clever business decisions. But I also doubt Sony is smart enough to try to do that, especially since buying AMD might hurt their (Intel-focused) laptop business.
Sony did end up buying Minolta for their camera business, so them buying another hardware company isn't out-of-line.
Blizzard/Activision/EA could buy AMD though, make their own consoles.
It looks like these rate are for the each groups over the entire state, at least according to my interpretation of the article? In that case, demographic factors already skews grades over entire segments, and this is recognition of that. I bet they eventually divide subgroups further - sex, wealth, geography, distance from school, class sizes, etc.
Not sure if this is right or wrong, but in my view if you want to improve an overall group, you find its strongest & weakest members, figure out why they are that way, apply fixes, and repeat in an engineering feedback loop.
Or Virginia could entirely be racist.. dunno from the article.
3.6 kilowatts, 16 GPUs:
http://fireuser.com/blog/8_amd_firepro_s10000s_16_gpus_achieve_8_tflops_real_world_double_precision_/
and to think all this comes from video games.