Obama graduated Magna cum Laude from Harvard Law so he was in the top 10% of his class. That is enough for me to go on. Does it matter what his Columbia grades were?
Well if he got into Harvard, he should have graduated with a high GPA, at or near the top of his class in Columbia, right? So what's his GPA? It must have been high enough to get into Harvard Law, so why hasn't it been released, like it has for every other candidate?
What's the harm in knowing? Why is he hiding it? My Bayesian inference-meter is off the charts on this one...
If you are running Mac OS X, you can use Booxter which is the best book cataloging program out there. It tracks all sorts of attributes and connects to a lot of different web sites to get the book data (Amazon, but also Library of Congress, etc.). In addition to books, it will also catalog music, movies and comic books.
You can create smart lists (like in iTunes) to categorize things, and you can scan barcodes with a handheld scanner or use an iSight. It also has integrated label printing to help you in organizing a home library, and can easily handle many thousands of items.
- Jam sites. These are websites where you plug your MIDI instrument into your PC, go to the site, find a channel where someone else who is playing their MIDI instrument to the website, and join into the groove. A musician's Napster. Actually I don't know if these even exist. Please let me know if they do. If not, please code it as your senior project.
I had a similar janitorial summer job long ago which required cleaning restrooms (men's and women's). You are absolutely correct about being looked down upon by (almost) all people, and also about it being an extremely valuable lesson for later in life. I too have found that a person's attitude toward menial workers is a near perfect predictor of their character. I think the first week of any job anywhere (from CEO on down) should entail cleaning the restrooms in the building in which you are working; it would make for a better workforce. To this day I can't stand walking into a public restroom that someone has left filthy, and I always make sure to leave them clean, because I know there's someone out there who has to clean it all up.
If you are running Mac OS X, Booxter is the best book cataloging program out there. It tracks all sorts of attributes and connects to a lot of different web sites to get the book data (Amazon, but also Library of Congress, etc.).
You can create smart lists (like in iTunes) to categorize your books. And you can scan barcodes with a handheld scanner or use an iSight - pretty cool. You can export to XML also.
Well, you seem to have an enlightened opinion about how I would help other people in need with your statement: Would you have paid this guy's training out of your own will ? No way. So I figured I would make, as you did, an equally broad, blanket statement about you and assume that you and everyone else in the world does absolutely nothing to help other people.
Does the charity market even remotely approaches the car market for instance ?
Good Lord, I certainly hope not. The world would have to be in terrible shape for that to occur.
Sorry, but the theses Bastiat promotes have been invalidated long ago.
Really? By who?
You're saying it would be a "better use", but how do you know ? Say the government takes $100 from you. That's bad, you couldn't buy that new sweater you wanted (most likely made in some far-eastern country anyway, so much for that money actually going into local wages). Suppose these $100 are used to give a new training to some unemployed guy, which helps him find a job later on, hence contributing again to society. Would you have paid this guy's training out of your own will ? No way.
Ah, OK, so you mean to say that you don't give money to charity. I do.
If a government is to spend money for anything, it has to take the money from people who probably had some better use planned for that money. That's a net loss to society. There certainly are some things that governments should spend money on, but those things are few.
GI #1: Hey, what's this? A lampshade made of human skin? That would look good at home.
GI #2: What are you doing? You can't take that with you!
GI #1: Sure, why not? The person whose skin this was is already dead. It was going to be thrown out anyway. Might as well make use of it now. Besides, it's not like it's a whole person either. It's just their skin.
This girl will grow up without a father. And not because he got killed in a car wreck or hit by lightning, but because dad decided to have a kid knowing he wasn't long for the world. In a way it's sort of premeditated child abandonment.
And so you would like to pass laws requiring forced sterilization of people over a certain age? Bravo.
1. When has ADM or it's subsidiaries ever supported terrorists or terrorism directly or indirectly? I don't know about you, but I've never heard of ADM involvement in Palestinian suicide bombings.
2. When has ADM ever arbitrarily raised the cost of their product in the event of, or the wake of a national tragedy? I don't think I've ever heard anything about ADM price fixing. Anyone else remember the gas hike after September 11th?
3. When has ADM done anything morally reprehensible, other than making Decatur IL, smell like an arm pit?
Find/replace 'ADM' with 'Enron' and 'Decatur IL' with 'Houston, TX' and the inanity of your argument is plain to see.
The media never called for Bill Clinton to appoint centrists because there were never any vacancies during Clinton's terms.
According to wikipedia Clinton appointed 2 justices, Ginsberg and Breyer.
And the parent is right - there was no clamor back then to appoint any 'moderate' judges.
Since they can't win elections, the liberals are clawing with their fingernails to try to hold onto whatever power they can get. Judges are their last chance, hence the embarrassingly bizarre obstructionism we see in Congress these days (can anyone say 'borking'?).
I have a RadioShark, and the reception is very poor no matter where I place it (other radio receivers in the same area work fine). It is so bad that I haven't even tried the time shifting feature yet, since the sound that you end up getting is very painful to listen to anyway.
They say that plugging in headphones to the RadioShark will improve reception, but it seems to have no effect at all.
Is there some other kind of antenna that can be plugged into it to improve the reception?
Mastermind is in a league of its own. The ominous music, the rapid fire questions, the solitary chair and the spotlight on the contestant... now THAT'S a quiz show.
Too many people ARE blindly consuming "properly" priced resources right and left.
How so? In a free society, people make informed personal decisions and consume what they want. There's nothing 'blind' about it. And if you know that 'too many' people are doing something that you don't like, how many is too many? Where do you get all this special knowledge ("too many", "what they need", etc.)?
What country do you live in? The IRS wrote people checks for $300 dollars (to be paid back later) and were encouraged (by conservatives like you) to spend it on something.
What country do you live in? Those were just sped up tax refunds that the taxpayers would have gotten anyway at a later date. Everyone I know invested their checks. I encouraged no one to use their checks for anything. I couldn't care less what other people did with their checks. That's their own business, not mine.
It is the very foundation of our economy... consumption.
Actually, that's not true; the foundation of the economy (any economy, not necessarily that of the U.S.) is based upon 4 things: production, consumption, specialization, and trade. Each is vital; consumption is only one part of the economy.
The more people consume. the better the economy. Look around you. SUVs, disposable goods, wasteful packaging. People are going into massive debt just to consume more resources.
Who are these people you know that are going into massive debt? Do you live near a casino? If people truly are going into debt, they're probably the smart ones, since interest rates have fallen so low, they are paying relatively less for it.
I dont' know if this will happen until all the resources are gone.. It happens to other animals in nature if left without an external control.
External control? You mean like prices? Prices that will rise when a resource is becoming depleted so as to signal to everyone that we should consume less of it?
ALthough we'd start to really suffer long before that. (indeed, many people around the world ARE suffering). What do you think would happen if all the people in the world had the standard of living we do?
That would be wonderful.
The US is using WAY more resources than it could supply domestically. Look at the trade deficit.
Trade deficit? You mean the deal by which we send little pieces of green paper with U.S. presidents on them (something that literally grows on trees) to people in foreign countries, and in return they send us shiny new cars and computers? What a great deal.
I'm hardly a grand judge. Who made me a judge? Me. I did. I decided to start seeing beyond my own self-interest. I decided that I am tired of hearing about lakes/rivers that I can't eat fish from. I am tired of hearing about wars over oil and resources. I am tired of worrying about the quality of the air I breath.
Where do you live? Next door to a coal-fired power plant? Air and water get cleaner year after year. We're not living in some Charles Dickens novel.
Technology and overconsumption have gotten us this far, and I am grateful, but it is time to shift gears. There is something to be learned from all those cultures we have suppressed, destroyed, and assimilated over the years.
"We"? Speak for yourself. Cultures that I have suppressed, destroyed and assimilated: 0.
My "rationale?" Depends on the person. Don't act like you don't know what greed is.
Greed is defined as someone desiring more than he needs or deserves. I don't see how people buying SUVs are 'greedy'. Unless you know better than they do what they 'need' or 'deserve'. Which would be a pretty arrogant thing to believe.
Anyway, I believe I've made my point. Even you have agreed that our current economic system has nothing built in to conserve abundant resources.
Abundant resources by definition don't need to be conserved.
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Obama graduated Magna cum Laude from Harvard Law so he was in the top 10% of his class. That is enough for me to go on. Does it matter what his Columbia grades were?
Well if he got into Harvard, he should have graduated with a high GPA, at or near the top of his class in Columbia, right? So what's his GPA? It must have been high enough to get into Harvard Law, so why hasn't it been released, like it has for every other candidate?
What's the harm in knowing? Why is he hiding it? My Bayesian inference-meter is off the charts on this one...
graduated near the bottom of his class
If we know that McCain finished near the bottom of his class in college, we must surely know where in his class Obama finished, right?
And we've learned about Bush's education, and Gore's, and Biden's and Palin's... there's something missing...
Why don't we know about Obama's? What is he hiding?
If you are running Mac OS X, you can use Booxter which is the best book cataloging program out there. It tracks all sorts of attributes and connects to a lot of different web sites to get the book data (Amazon, but also Library of Congress, etc.). In addition to books, it will also catalog music, movies and comic books.
You can create smart lists (like in iTunes) to categorize things, and you can scan barcodes with a handheld scanner or use an iSight. It also has integrated label printing to help you in organizing a home library, and can easily handle many thousands of items.
- Jam sites. These are websites where you plug your MIDI instrument into your PC, go to the site, find a channel where someone else who is playing their MIDI instrument to the website, and join into the groove. A musician's Napster. Actually I don't know if these even exist. Please let me know if they do. If not, please code it as your senior project.
http://www.ejamming.com/
I had a similar janitorial summer job long ago which required cleaning restrooms (men's and women's). You are absolutely correct about being looked down upon by (almost) all people, and also about it being an extremely valuable lesson for later in life. I too have found that a person's attitude toward menial workers is a near perfect predictor of their character. I think the first week of any job anywhere (from CEO on down) should entail cleaning the restrooms in the building in which you are working; it would make for a better workforce. To this day I can't stand walking into a public restroom that someone has left filthy, and I always make sure to leave them clean, because I know there's someone out there who has to clean it all up.
Isn't that the original idea behind capitalism?
/., so keep in mind that most people posting here know nothing about economics, but think they do.
Yes, but remember, this is
Delicious looks yummy. However does this do library numbering systems like Dewey or Library of Congress?
No, but Booxter does - it will gather both Dewey and Library of Congress numbers.
If you are running Mac OS X, Booxter is the best book cataloging program out there. It tracks all sorts of attributes and connects to a lot of different web sites to get the book data (Amazon, but also Library of Congress, etc.).
You can create smart lists (like in iTunes) to categorize your books. And you can scan barcodes with a handheld scanner or use an iSight - pretty cool. You can export to XML also.
http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/00/06/02/0337257.s html
But the comments here are also insightful.
Why do people think themselves well-qualified to pontificate on economic matters with a freshman course in the subject?
;^)
Are you new here?
Come on, what kind of cheap insult is that ?
Well, you seem to have an enlightened opinion about how I would help other people in need with your statement: Would you have paid this guy's training out of your own will ? No way. So I figured I would make, as you did, an equally broad, blanket statement about you and assume that you and everyone else in the world does absolutely nothing to help other people.
Does the charity market even remotely approaches the car market for instance ?
Good Lord, I certainly hope not. The world would have to be in terrible shape for that to occur.
Sorry, but the theses Bastiat promotes have been invalidated long ago.
Really? By who?
You're saying it would be a "better use", but how do you know ? Say the government takes $100 from you. That's bad, you couldn't buy that new sweater you wanted (most likely made in some far-eastern country anyway, so much for that money actually going into local wages). Suppose these $100 are used to give a new training to some unemployed guy, which helps him find a job later on, hence contributing again to society. Would you have paid this guy's training out of your own will ? No way.
Ah, OK, so you mean to say that you don't give money to charity. I do.
No offence, but you should read some Bastiat. Might I suggest Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas for starters?
If a government is to spend money for anything, it has to take the money from people who probably had some better use planned for that money. That's a net loss to society. There certainly are some things that governments should spend money on, but those things are few.
Exactly right.
(cut to Buchenwald, 1945)...
GI #1: Hey, what's this? A lampshade made of human skin? That would look good at home.
GI #2: What are you doing? You can't take that with you!
GI #1: Sure, why not? The person whose skin this was is already dead. It was going to be thrown out anyway. Might as well make use of it now. Besides, it's not like it's a whole person either. It's just their skin.
This girl will grow up without a father. And not because he got killed in a car wreck or hit by lightning, but because dad decided to have a kid knowing he wasn't long for the world. In a way it's sort of premeditated child abandonment.
And so you would like to pass laws requiring forced sterilization of people over a certain age? Bravo.
1. When has ADM or it's subsidiaries ever supported terrorists or terrorism directly or indirectly? I don't know about you, but I've never heard of ADM involvement in Palestinian suicide bombings.
2. When has ADM ever arbitrarily raised the cost of their product in the event of, or the wake of a national tragedy? I don't think I've ever heard anything about ADM price fixing. Anyone else remember the gas hike after September 11th?
3. When has ADM done anything morally reprehensible, other than making Decatur IL, smell like an arm pit?
Find/replace 'ADM' with 'Enron' and 'Decatur IL' with 'Houston, TX' and the inanity of your argument is plain to see.
The media never called for Bill Clinton to appoint centrists because there were never any vacancies during Clinton's terms.
According to wikipedia Clinton appointed 2 justices, Ginsberg and Breyer.
And the parent is right - there was no clamor back then to appoint any 'moderate' judges.
Since they can't win elections, the liberals are clawing with their fingernails to try to hold onto whatever power they can get. Judges are their last chance, hence the embarrassingly bizarre obstructionism we see in Congress these days (can anyone say 'borking'?).
I have a RadioShark, and the reception is very poor no matter where I place it (other radio receivers in the same area work fine). It is so bad that I haven't even tried the time shifting feature yet, since the sound that you end up getting is very painful to listen to anyway.
They say that plugging in headphones to the RadioShark will improve reception, but it seems to have no effect at all.
Is there some other kind of antenna that can be plugged into it to improve the reception?
Mac people have had that ability for a while. Booxter was actually the first application to support iSight barcode scanning. It's fantastic.
Booxter is, hands down, the best application for cataloging books on the Mac.
Ah, the joys of Jet Set Willy...
... what a great game.
And I still have my manual for Elite lying around somewhere
That feature is in Mac OS X as a System Service and can be activated from the Services menu.
The service is called 'Summarize'.
Select some text and run the service and take a look.
I thought of Jeopardy as the ne plus ultra of quiz shows.
That is, until I saw Mastermind.
Mastermind is in a league of its own. The ominous music, the rapid fire questions, the solitary chair and the spotlight on the contestant... now THAT'S a quiz show.
This version is written for Panther, and thus covers the new features of Cocoa that were introduced in Panther, such as bindings.
Too many people ARE blindly consuming "properly" priced resources right and left.
How so? In a free society, people make informed personal decisions and consume what they want. There's nothing 'blind' about it. And if you know that 'too many' people are doing something that you don't like, how many is too many? Where do you get all this special knowledge ("too many", "what they need", etc.)?
What country do you live in? The IRS wrote people checks for $300 dollars (to be paid back later) and were encouraged (by conservatives like you) to spend it on something.
What country do you live in? Those were just sped up tax refunds that the taxpayers would have gotten anyway at a later date. Everyone I know invested their checks. I encouraged no one to use their checks for anything. I couldn't care less what other people did with their checks. That's their own business, not mine.
It is the very foundation of our economy... consumption.
Actually, that's not true; the foundation of the economy (any economy, not necessarily that of the U.S.) is based upon 4 things: production, consumption, specialization, and trade. Each is vital; consumption is only one part of the economy.
The more people consume. the better the economy. Look around you. SUVs, disposable goods, wasteful packaging. People are going into massive debt just to consume more resources.
Who are these people you know that are going into massive debt? Do you live near a casino? If people truly are going into debt, they're probably the smart ones, since interest rates have fallen so low, they are paying relatively less for it.
I dont' know if this will happen until all the resources are gone.. It happens to other animals in nature if left without an external control.
External control? You mean like prices? Prices that will rise when a resource is becoming depleted so as to signal to everyone that we should consume less of it?
ALthough we'd start to really suffer long before that. (indeed, many people around the world ARE suffering). What do you think would happen if all the people in the world had the standard of living we do?
That would be wonderful.
The US is using WAY more resources than it could supply domestically. Look at the trade deficit.
Trade deficit? You mean the deal by which we send little pieces of green paper with U.S. presidents on them (something that literally grows on trees) to people in foreign countries, and in return they send us shiny new cars and computers? What a great deal.
I'm hardly a grand judge. Who made me a judge? Me. I did. I decided to start seeing beyond my own self-interest. I decided that I am tired of hearing about lakes/rivers that I can't eat fish from. I am tired of hearing about wars over oil and resources. I am tired of worrying about the quality of the air I breath.
Where do you live? Next door to a coal-fired power plant? Air and water get cleaner year after year. We're not living in some Charles Dickens novel.
Technology and overconsumption have gotten us this far, and I am grateful, but it is time to shift gears. There is something to be learned from all those cultures we have suppressed, destroyed, and assimilated over the years.
"We"? Speak for yourself. Cultures that I have suppressed, destroyed and assimilated: 0.
My "rationale?" Depends on the person. Don't act like you don't know what greed is.
Greed is defined as someone desiring more than he needs or deserves. I don't see how people buying SUVs are 'greedy'. Unless you know better than they do what they 'need' or 'deserve'. Which would be a pretty arrogant thing to believe.
Anyway, I believe I've made my point. Even you have agreed that our current economic system has nothing built in to conserve abundant resources.
Abundant resources by definition don't need to be conserved.