Stop giving politicians the means by which to control us.
If we realize that Taxes are regressive (all of them) then we can start to address the problem. Government (especially ours) aren't built on efficiency. In fact, I would postulate that large parts of government are designed to waste money to grow budgets to gain power to control more budget monies. Zero based budgeting would be a good step in reining in budgetary excesses that have been and are built into the system that requires ever increasing amounts of regressive taxes.
Insider trading isn't corruption. It is frowned upon because it gives the appearances of being "unfair". The valuation of the company is based upon information. People who know, are always better off than the ignorant. The only way to make things fair is that all publicly held companies must reveal all information affecting (or potentially affecting) stock prices immediately. No "secret" deals. Privately held companies aren't subject to insider trading;)
Deregulation has brought in a society that is as inequal as the French ancien regime.
Deregulation and Overregulation aren't the real problem. The problem is taxes are regressive. Always. Everytime.
This is just another example of how / why taxes are regressive. The rich can always avoid paying them to the extent that the middle and lower classes cannot. The richer you are, the easier it is to avoid taxes.
Progressives love to try and "stick it to the man" but in reality the end result is that the Middle class gets fucked in the ass every time. The idea the "society" has a right to people's wealth has got to end. Society has an obligation to help people retain their wealth, not confiscate it via taxes. The best way to improve the economic condition of the very poor, is to figure out a way to not fucking tax them.
Personally, I wouldn't consider functional bugs to bugs in the language, unless there is no way to accomplish a task without generating exploitable bugs.
Don't blame the result on the language, unless the language itself is the problem. SQL injections are not a programming language issue. It is a problem with the coders.
It isn't about jobs or friends. Sometimes it is about trolls and criminals. If a dirtbag sends my under age daughter a dick pic, it is going to get screen capped and sent to the police. Undelete just give false sense of security.
Same gun. Same caliber. Same Fire rate. Same Magazine capability. But some are tame looking and others are very scary looking. Scary Ones get "AK style" when reporting.
The question is, you outlaw one, all or some based on arbitrary (non-functional) differences?
It isn't the certainty that is in question. It is that we simplify things too soon, so we can make grand announcements that sound spectacular only to walk them back later.
Define Capable. Mars, technically might be capable. But that doesn't mean it actually exists there. And until we actually go there, dig up something that fits our description of life, it is cannot ever be concluded that there is life, only probability.And then, we'll still likely be wrong, miss forms of life that do not conform to our definition.
I would postulate a civilized society doesn't need a government either then too. The reason why we have these things is exactly why we need them. There are enough uncivilized people to warrant them.
What is so damn overbearing about requiring guns be licensed and not sold to any crazy person, criminal or terrorist at a 'gun show'?
Those laws already exist. And because they don't actually stop crazy people from shooting up a school full of kids (See Sandy Hook).
The problem is, in almost every case you have, guns were already legally purchased, and no new law, short of outlawing them all together, wouldn't have done a thing to stop them. But you will NEVER hear a politician ask to repeal the 2nd Amendment outright. So, the only solution is to make the whining liberal elites step up and actually make them say that the 2nd Amendment needs to be repealed.
But that isn't going to happen they will try to take our guns by frog in the pot method.
If you want to redefine what "Militia" means, by all means, try to redefine it. The problem for you, is that defining words by law (legislative, petition) has successfully been nullified by the courts with "marriage". And since the term Militia has ALREADY been defined by the courts to mean "able bodied men" the best redefinition you could possibly hope for is one that is "more inclusive" to mean "women" as well.
So good luck getting a legally established definition overturned.
The "Militia" has a definition, and "well regulated" also has a definition. Militia contains every able bodied man (now woman) in the US, by definition. Well Regulated in the context here doesn't mean "Ordinances or laws by government (regulations)" in means "ordered, disciplined" as in "regulated engine"; it is functionality, not legal term.
So, the English language has a definitive meaning here, and it isn't at all what the Anti-gun people want it to mean. In fact, it means pretty much the opposite of what the anti-gun nuts want it to mean.
But here is the thing, if you don't want to have guns, and want to surrender your rights over to government, by all means feel free to do so, but don't count me in on surrendering my rights simply because they are "scary".
Obviously "AK47" and "AK47 Type" are not necessarily the same thing. AK47 is very specific model. Like an M1911 is a.45 but not all.45s are M1911. There are a number of similar looking M1911 type pistols out there, that are not M1911.
So, when I said "AK47 type" I meant "Scary looking rifle that resembles AK47 to the untrained eye, but isn't really an AK47"
As for your 75RD drum mag, those are pretty much illegal in most jurisdictions in the US. But there are plenty of other mags that hold lots of ammo, and other options to have many 15 round clips that can be inserted in less than 2 seconds, and are easier to use/aim with. I'd rather have 5 x 15 round mags than one 75 RD drum. And I would definitely like 10 of them compared to 2 of the larger cap drums.
But 75 RD drum Mag seems "scary" so... I can see why you went there. You are exactly the reason why "Scary" language works.
Your comments would carry a bit more weight if you didn't insult the people you disagree with.
Actually, insulting people is the norm in politics these days. Everyone from the Far Left to the Far Right and the hucksters in the middle (see Trump) insult the people they disagree with. And it works very well for the kneejerk low information voter types.
He isn't against guns. He is only against civilians having guns. He also doesn't understand the reason for Amendment #2 is precisely because government tyrants love their own guns.
In a nutshell, he is the reason I want to have guns.
Here's the problem right now. Storage. We don't need spinning drives to store stuff, but we continue to use them because they are still cheaper than the alternative. The limitations of spinning drives is now starting to really impact access to data on those drives. There is too much data on these slow devices and that is the problem.
My prediction is, that in less than 3 years, you'll see the final death blow to Spinning disks (though they will remain like Floppies forever for legacy reasons) as they are finally replaced by SSDs that are on new buses that offer larger storage, longer lifespans and faster access.When you see your first 16 TB SSD drive (next year**) you will see why Spinning drives are already at the end of their era.
Just so you (or maybe not you, but others) know, the USA lower 48, would span from UK to Israel if overlayed on a map. People not in the USA, having never been here, have no idea how big it actually is. They love to tell us, how we should be, comparing us to little Scandinavian Countries with Monolithic cultures. I can assure you that Miami Florida is nothing like Seattle Washington, or Casper Wyoming, or Boston Massachusetts or Phoenix Arizona or Chicago Illinois or Memphis Tennessee....
The only thing that is intriguing about Hyperlink is that it is capable of providing personalized transportation with High Speed. If I could get into a Hyperlink unit in LA and end up in NYC without getting out of the car (or minimal stops/transfers), with anything approaching Airline speed, that would be awesome. But if Government is involved, there is no way that it becomes viable, because there are too many people who will cry about some "unfair" reality that needs to have some SJW involved to make it fair.
The HSR system was a joke from the beginning. It was a "make work" program for Unions designed to keep middle class Democrat voters from fleeing the state. It never made economic sense. The routes went to places nobody wants to go. Didn't use existing Highway pathways. Had too many stops to be useful. And OneWay Ticket prices were expected to exceed the average round trip in state airfare from the beginning.
But typical liberalism doesn't care about actual facts, they only care about what "feels" good. And HSR is one of those liberal ideals that simply require ongoing expensive taxes in order to subsidize perpetual economic drain.
The fact is, we do have HSR, that is much more flexible and capable of hauling people around. The Liberal elites just want it reserved for those going to Global Warming Symposiums. They are called Airplanes.
Productivity doesn't always mean how much faster you get something done, sometimes productivity is whether or not you actually do something.
I learned this lesson almost 20 years ago. And there are some people who view Man Hours as a sunk cost (no value). They don't see the value in upgrading / speeding up a process. They don't see it, because to them whatever it is costing to get the improvement isn't worth it, even if it would be worth in in spades. They just don't see man hours as anything other than static cost.
But sometimes, the efficiency is such that it makes the difference
GPS time actually doesn't exist, because clocks in orbit differ from clocks on the ground, due to Relativity. There is no "GPS" time, and in fact, the differences in time keeping between clocks is integral to how GPS actually works.
If customers want a better UI and, oh the horror, a more intuitive interface, then guess what. You're a developer. That's what you're going to develop.
Not really accurate. Customers want what customers want, what they are willing to pay for is something entirely different.
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Stop giving politicians the means by which to control us.
If we realize that Taxes are regressive (all of them) then we can start to address the problem. Government (especially ours) aren't built on efficiency. In fact, I would postulate that large parts of government are designed to waste money to grow budgets to gain power to control more budget monies. Zero based budgeting would be a good step in reining in budgetary excesses that have been and are built into the system that requires ever increasing amounts of regressive taxes.
Insider trading isn't corruption. It is frowned upon because it gives the appearances of being "unfair". The valuation of the company is based upon information. People who know, are always better off than the ignorant. The only way to make things fair is that all publicly held companies must reveal all information affecting (or potentially affecting) stock prices immediately. No "secret" deals. Privately held companies aren't subject to insider trading ;)
Deregulation has brought in a society that is as inequal as the French ancien regime.
Deregulation and Overregulation aren't the real problem. The problem is taxes are regressive. Always. Everytime.
This is just another example of how / why taxes are regressive. The rich can always avoid paying them to the extent that the middle and lower classes cannot. The richer you are, the easier it is to avoid taxes.
Progressives love to try and "stick it to the man" but in reality the end result is that the Middle class gets fucked in the ass every time. The idea the "society" has a right to people's wealth has got to end. Society has an obligation to help people retain their wealth, not confiscate it via taxes. The best way to improve the economic condition of the very poor, is to figure out a way to not fucking tax them.
Personally, I wouldn't consider functional bugs to bugs in the language, unless there is no way to accomplish a task without generating exploitable bugs.
Don't blame the result on the language, unless the language itself is the problem. SQL injections are not a programming language issue. It is a problem with the coders.
It isn't about jobs or friends. Sometimes it is about trolls and criminals. If a dirtbag sends my under age daughter a dick pic, it is going to get screen capped and sent to the police. Undelete just give false sense of security.
Here in the US, the media loves hyperbole, so anything that looks like and assault rifle is called "AK(47) Style" assault rifle.
Here is an example of what I am talking about: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AJsL...
Same gun. Same caliber. Same Fire rate. Same Magazine capability. But some are tame looking and others are very scary looking. Scary Ones get "AK style" when reporting.
The question is, you outlaw one, all or some based on arbitrary (non-functional) differences?
It isn't the certainty that is in question. It is that we simplify things too soon, so we can make grand announcements that sound spectacular only to walk them back later.
This is politics, not science.
exoplanet capable of supporting life
Define Capable. Mars, technically might be capable. But that doesn't mean it actually exists there. And until we actually go there, dig up something that fits our description of life, it is cannot ever be concluded that there is life, only probability.And then, we'll still likely be wrong, miss forms of life that do not conform to our definition.
Science, where failure equals success. Failure is part of the process.
A civilised society doesn't need guns.
I would postulate a civilized society doesn't need a government either then too. The reason why we have these things is exactly why we need them. There are enough uncivilized people to warrant them.
But rose tinted glasses are pretty.
What is so damn overbearing about requiring guns be licensed and not sold to any crazy person, criminal or terrorist at a 'gun show'?
Those laws already exist. And because they don't actually stop crazy people from shooting up a school full of kids (See Sandy Hook).
The problem is, in almost every case you have, guns were already legally purchased, and no new law, short of outlawing them all together, wouldn't have done a thing to stop them. But you will NEVER hear a politician ask to repeal the 2nd Amendment outright. So, the only solution is to make the whining liberal elites step up and actually make them say that the 2nd Amendment needs to be repealed.
But that isn't going to happen they will try to take our guns by frog in the pot method.
If you want to redefine what "Militia" means, by all means, try to redefine it. The problem for you, is that defining words by law (legislative, petition) has successfully been nullified by the courts with "marriage". And since the term Militia has ALREADY been defined by the courts to mean "able bodied men" the best redefinition you could possibly hope for is one that is "more inclusive" to mean "women" as well.
So good luck getting a legally established definition overturned.
The "Militia" has a definition, and "well regulated" also has a definition. Militia contains every able bodied man (now woman) in the US, by definition. Well Regulated in the context here doesn't mean "Ordinances or laws by government (regulations)" in means "ordered, disciplined" as in "regulated engine"; it is functionality, not legal term.
So, the English language has a definitive meaning here, and it isn't at all what the Anti-gun people want it to mean. In fact, it means pretty much the opposite of what the anti-gun nuts want it to mean.
But here is the thing, if you don't want to have guns, and want to surrender your rights over to government, by all means feel free to do so, but don't count me in on surrendering my rights simply because they are "scary".
Freedom is sometime ugly and messy.
Obviously "AK47" and "AK47 Type" are not necessarily the same thing. AK47 is very specific model. Like an M1911 is a .45 but not all .45s are M1911. There are a number of similar looking M1911 type pistols out there, that are not M1911.
So, when I said "AK47 type" I meant "Scary looking rifle that resembles AK47 to the untrained eye, but isn't really an AK47"
As for your 75RD drum mag, those are pretty much illegal in most jurisdictions in the US. But there are plenty of other mags that hold lots of ammo, and other options to have many 15 round clips that can be inserted in less than 2 seconds, and are easier to use/aim with. I'd rather have 5 x 15 round mags than one 75 RD drum. And I would definitely like 10 of them compared to 2 of the larger cap drums.
But 75 RD drum Mag seems "scary" so ... I can see why you went there. You are exactly the reason why "Scary" language works.
Your comments would carry a bit more weight if you didn't insult the people you disagree with.
Actually, insulting people is the norm in politics these days. Everyone from the Far Left to the Far Right and the hucksters in the middle (see Trump) insult the people they disagree with. And it works very well for the kneejerk low information voter types.
I'm happy the cops here have guns;
He isn't against guns. He is only against civilians having guns. He also doesn't understand the reason for Amendment #2 is precisely because government tyrants love their own guns.
In a nutshell, he is the reason I want to have guns.
AK-47 Type meaning "scary" rifle that is functionally the same as a hunting rifle, but "Scary" looking.
Here's the problem right now. Storage. We don't need spinning drives to store stuff, but we continue to use them because they are still cheaper than the alternative. The limitations of spinning drives is now starting to really impact access to data on those drives. There is too much data on these slow devices and that is the problem.
My prediction is, that in less than 3 years, you'll see the final death blow to Spinning disks (though they will remain like Floppies forever for legacy reasons) as they are finally replaced by SSDs that are on new buses that offer larger storage, longer lifespans and faster access.When you see your first 16 TB SSD drive (next year**) you will see why Spinning drives are already at the end of their era.
Pretty soon, Netcraft is going to confirm it.
** http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...
Just so you (or maybe not you, but others) know, the USA lower 48, would span from UK to Israel if overlayed on a map. People not in the USA, having never been here, have no idea how big it actually is. They love to tell us, how we should be, comparing us to little Scandinavian Countries with Monolithic cultures. I can assure you that Miami Florida is nothing like Seattle Washington, or Casper Wyoming, or Boston Massachusetts or Phoenix Arizona or Chicago Illinois or Memphis Tennessee ....
The only thing that is intriguing about Hyperlink is that it is capable of providing personalized transportation with High Speed. If I could get into a Hyperlink unit in LA and end up in NYC without getting out of the car (or minimal stops/transfers), with anything approaching Airline speed, that would be awesome. But if Government is involved, there is no way that it becomes viable, because there are too many people who will cry about some "unfair" reality that needs to have some SJW involved to make it fair.
The HSR system was a joke from the beginning. It was a "make work" program for Unions designed to keep middle class Democrat voters from fleeing the state. It never made economic sense. The routes went to places nobody wants to go. Didn't use existing Highway pathways. Had too many stops to be useful. And OneWay Ticket prices were expected to exceed the average round trip in state airfare from the beginning.
But typical liberalism doesn't care about actual facts, they only care about what "feels" good. And HSR is one of those liberal ideals that simply require ongoing expensive taxes in order to subsidize perpetual economic drain.
The fact is, we do have HSR, that is much more flexible and capable of hauling people around. The Liberal elites just want it reserved for those going to Global Warming Symposiums. They are called Airplanes.
Productivity doesn't always mean how much faster you get something done, sometimes productivity is whether or not you actually do something.
I learned this lesson almost 20 years ago. And there are some people who view Man Hours as a sunk cost (no value). They don't see the value in upgrading / speeding up a process. They don't see it, because to them whatever it is costing to get the improvement isn't worth it, even if it would be worth in in spades. They just don't see man hours as anything other than static cost.
But sometimes, the efficiency is such that it makes the difference
GPS time actually doesn't exist, because clocks in orbit differ from clocks on the ground, due to Relativity. There is no "GPS" time, and in fact, the differences in time keeping between clocks is integral to how GPS actually works.
If customers want a better UI and, oh the horror, a more intuitive interface, then guess what. You're a developer. That's what you're going to develop.
Not really accurate. Customers want what customers want, what they are willing to pay for is something entirely different.
I would like to suggest that our right to face our accuser is being usurped . Some things just shouldn't be automated, even if we are able to.
go to a store and buy an item that already exists
You mean, go to the store and buy a drone, like I can do now? This was nothing more than a "me too" project.