Speaks to the third person of the original post, then sets up a straw man. Many faces were palmed. Sadly normal people who enjoy shooting for sport or collecting guns for craftsmanship and what not are drowned out by you morons who don't realize that regulation!=ban.
Read it again because I never said ban anything. That's your paranoia, sonny.
And since we're a few comments deep and we've clearly pigeon holed each other...what the fuck would satisfy you (who's handle means "dead bell" for god knows what reason (yeah I'm one to talk) and I assume is the type to make a youtube video of carrying a rifle into Wendy's to make a statement)? Every newborn infant gets an AR15 for the right hand and an AK47 for the left? And of course the doctors and nurses need to be strapped in case the kid's a terrorist? Or should we also replace fire extinguishers with sawed off shotguns for good measure?
Seriously (as if thats possible at this point..) what's your end game? The US already has the most guns per capita IN. THE. WORLD. Nearly 1-1. Its like 50% more than the next highest country which I think is freaking Serbia, a country thats never 5 years out from civil war. Stop being such a pussy when you already have everything you could possibly want and have to invent boogey men to fight.
I think blatant stupidity like this should automatically disqualify one from being president, but sadly we let them continue in their quest.
And that's one great thing (maybe the only?) about our political system, you get to think what you want and he gets to say what he wants.
I'll add that what makes me irate as an engineer is half the datasheets list component dimensions in metric and the other half in imperial so everything always has 5 decimal places on the layout and the traces never just go straight into a pad!
What the hell does that have to do with anything? Who's not allowing anything? Regulation is used to do things like keep felons, drunks, and the mentally unstable from having weapons, in this case guns. Feel free to spare me of any "slippery slope" bullshit.
What I can do is say that every country has become better when peasants no longer need to defend themselves...like in the US, where carrying a gun around is probably overall about as likely to save your life from an attacker as carrying a grounding rod will save you from getting struck by lightning.
Yeah why worry about tipping a balanced system. I mean, I look outside and I can't even see any CO2 at all! And did you know that it snowed at my house this past winter?! The scientists probably just made up CO2 so they can buy yachts and gold teeth.
Dunno but I can tell you it ain't gonna be spent on a director* or enforcement. If the duties of the ATF were folded into the FBI there might actually be sufficient budget to regulate firearms. That's a non-starter in the US.
(*OK after 7 years without one, congress finally appointed a director)
So all these prohibitions against selling alcohol to people under 21 are all pretty pointless, even kids without friends older than 21 can get their hands on unlimited supplies of the stuff with just a little thought and effort.
~50 million lazy teenagers would suggest otherwise. Are there even enough teenage homebrewers to make a statistic? I bet the number doing it because it's their only way to get drunk is around 6. Just because a rule doesn't make something foolproofishly impossible doesn't make it worthless, otherwise why have any rules at all?
I've personally been threatened with bodily harm a couple of times in the over a quarter of a century I've been on the Internet, and while I can't say it didn't effect me, I suppressed any desire to panic and realized that the assholes in question were, well, just assholes, and the odds were pretty damned low that I was ever in danger.
Were you threatened repeatedly over a year or so by someone you lived with for 7 years and had current knowledge of where you live and all your daily habits? Or were you threatened in 733t speak by "IRCHandle151" in a post because you like VI or whatever? If its the latter I can understand why you thought the odds are pretty low of the threat being carried out.
So all those inventions and innovations you listed weren't TRUE inventions and innovations (i.e. cool new stuff) because they had precursors and other applications were found for them? What are you going to say next, no one is TRULY from Scotland? Teleporter or GTFO?
The round trip time for a Mars mission is around 2 years.....
...with present technology. Didn't we get a bunch of cool new stuff out of the last space race? You know, like present technology? Maybe someone will get the ion drive to work at scale and cut the trip time and resources down by 10. Given the time and resources, humans usually get stuff to work.
Sounds like a prototype. It takes a lot of money and effort to make the first one that usually only works under ideal conditions. The next step is to make it work every time (or at least more than once). You certainly don't want to start out with 50M users because there might be a fatal flaw (i.e. every complex problem has an obvious, simple, and wrong solution). How would you begin a program that eliminates something as fundamental to US education as grade levels?
Overall I don't think there's be any reason for them to suspect that we were once here.
True but possibly because they may never make the leap now that all the easy fuel is used up. Wasn't there a story on here a few days ago about how difficult it would be to restart industry after a civilization collapse because there would be no infrastructure that can drill 10000ft underwater, etc? It took a lot more than 5M years under very different surface conditions for all that oil and coal to collect. The fact that we've burned as much fossil fuel as we did makes me think that there hasn't been a prior intelligent species (or at all?).
What's most interesting is that it's usually the most religious people who buy into the Republican Party's ideology, which includes "grabbing whatever you can get" and espousing Ayn Rand-style objectivist philosophy.
Must be tough avoiding electricians, plumbers, HVAC guys, busses, trucks, etc who get by on mirrors. Not sure of statistics but I'm guessing things aren't too bad else the NHTSA wouldn't (shouldn't?) be preoccupied with backup cameras and making the roof stronger.
Just had a thought...Assuming agriculture has complete domain over the water on their land only, if residential, etc users end up with a 100% sustainable system from reprocessing, conservation and non farm sources, agriculture users can go fuck themselves when their wells dry up! Sure the price of food will double for a generation while everything gets resorted but hey, that's way easier than addressing the issue ahead of time.
Ok 1% a year may well be shabby....but the US (and the world) still has an economy so there's that.
Yall can argue TARP wasn't executed in the best way (agreed) and might not have fixed the underlying problem (agreed) but none the less, it happened at a time when everyone agreed we were in a worst case scenario and now we're not. If you add that in, its more like 10000% ROI.
If a hypothesis built on 100's of years of physics and real world observations from the top of the troposphere to the bottom of the ocean by tens (hundreds?) of thousands of logic minded individuals counts as "wild speculation" in your book, I highly encourage you to check the definitions of "wild" and "speculation". Even if it is all a conspiracy/hoax/any other denialist bullshit, AGW certainly does not qualify as wild speculation.
Another fun game would be to hold yourself to a standard of: results less than 100% in any activity = failure. 98% on a math test in 3rd grade? You failed school. That seems to be how you came to your standard of "wrong".
Yeah but how many people have enough innate skill to be a household name 300 years after their death? If you're running a company who's business is to write and maintain millions of lines of code, you're going to have a problem finding 100's or 1000's of people with elite innate skill. Especially since you're competing against 100's of other companies that are doing basically the same thing.
The point is you don't need to be Einstein to be a programmer. Like you said, enough time and practice and you'll probably be at least average no matter who you are. Most programming jobs are like any job, they don't need (or pay for) exceptional so average is usually good enough. My guess is the real issue is letting the average joe into the club.
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Too bad the "greatest" or best possible anything is always a theoretical construct that's unattainable in the real world.
Speaks to the third person of the original post, then sets up a straw man. Many faces were palmed. Sadly normal people who enjoy shooting for sport or collecting guns for craftsmanship and what not are drowned out by you morons who don't realize that regulation!=ban.
Read it again because I never said ban anything. That's your paranoia, sonny.
And since we're a few comments deep and we've clearly pigeon holed each other...what the fuck would satisfy you (who's handle means "dead bell" for god knows what reason (yeah I'm one to talk) and I assume is the type to make a youtube video of carrying a rifle into Wendy's to make a statement)? Every newborn infant gets an AR15 for the right hand and an AK47 for the left? And of course the doctors and nurses need to be strapped in case the kid's a terrorist? Or should we also replace fire extinguishers with sawed off shotguns for good measure?
Seriously (as if thats possible at this point..) what's your end game? The US already has the most guns per capita IN. THE. WORLD. Nearly 1-1. Its like 50% more than the next highest country which I think is freaking Serbia, a country thats never 5 years out from civil war. Stop being such a pussy when you already have everything you could possibly want and have to invent boogey men to fight.
I think blatant stupidity like this should automatically disqualify one from being president, but sadly we let them continue in their quest.
And that's one great thing (maybe the only?) about our political system, you get to think what you want and he gets to say what he wants.
I'll add that what makes me irate as an engineer is half the datasheets list component dimensions in metric and the other half in imperial so everything always has 5 decimal places on the layout and the traces never just go straight into a pad!
What the hell does that have to do with anything? Who's not allowing anything? Regulation is used to do things like keep felons, drunks, and the mentally unstable from having weapons, in this case guns. Feel free to spare me of any "slippery slope" bullshit.
What I can do is say that every country has become better when peasants no longer need to defend themselves...like in the US, where carrying a gun around is probably overall about as likely to save your life from an attacker as carrying a grounding rod will save you from getting struck by lightning.
Yeah why worry about tipping a balanced system. I mean, I look outside and I can't even see any CO2 at all! And did you know that it snowed at my house this past winter?! The scientists probably just made up CO2 so they can buy yachts and gold teeth.
what are we going to do with all the money we spend on the Bureau of Alchol, Tobacco and Firearms???
Dunno but I can tell you it ain't gonna be spent on a director* or enforcement. If the duties of the ATF were folded into the FBI there might actually be sufficient budget to regulate firearms. That's a non-starter in the US.
(*OK after 7 years without one, congress finally appointed a director)
So all these prohibitions against selling alcohol to people under 21 are all pretty pointless, even kids without friends older than 21 can get their hands on unlimited supplies of the stuff with just a little thought and effort.
~50 million lazy teenagers would suggest otherwise. Are there even enough teenage homebrewers to make a statistic? I bet the number doing it because it's their only way to get drunk is around 6. Just because a rule doesn't make something foolproofishly impossible doesn't make it worthless, otherwise why have any rules at all?
I've personally been threatened with bodily harm a couple of times in the over a quarter of a century I've been on the Internet, and while I can't say it didn't effect me, I suppressed any desire to panic and realized that the assholes in question were, well, just assholes, and the odds were pretty damned low that I was ever in danger.
Were you threatened repeatedly over a year or so by someone you lived with for 7 years and had current knowledge of where you live and all your daily habits? Or were you threatened in 733t speak by "IRCHandle151" in a post because you like VI or whatever? If its the latter I can understand why you thought the odds are pretty low of the threat being carried out.
So all those inventions and innovations you listed weren't TRUE inventions and innovations (i.e. cool new stuff) because they had precursors and other applications were found for them? What are you going to say next, no one is TRULY from Scotland? Teleporter or GTFO?
We are doing it wrong. Let other tech catch up first.
And what better way to "catch things up" than with a space race!
We have already started a space race and are quite simply, waiting for the Chinese to catch up.
What the hell kind of race do you wait for the opponent to catch up?
Perhaps you are right but the spirit of NdGT's (are those the appropriate initials) are most certainly for advancement of everyone.
The round trip time for a Mars mission is around 2 years.....
...with present technology. Didn't we get a bunch of cool new stuff out of the last space race? You know, like present technology? Maybe someone will get the ion drive to work at scale and cut the trip time and resources down by 10. Given the time and resources, humans usually get stuff to work.
Sounds like a prototype. It takes a lot of money and effort to make the first one that usually only works under ideal conditions. The next step is to make it work every time (or at least more than once). You certainly don't want to start out with 50M users because there might be a fatal flaw (i.e. every complex problem has an obvious, simple, and wrong solution). How would you begin a program that eliminates something as fundamental to US education as grade levels?
Overall I don't think there's be any reason for them to suspect that we were once here.
True but possibly because they may never make the leap now that all the easy fuel is used up. Wasn't there a story on here a few days ago about how difficult it would be to restart industry after a civilization collapse because there would be no infrastructure that can drill 10000ft underwater, etc? It took a lot more than 5M years under very different surface conditions for all that oil and coal to collect. The fact that we've burned as much fossil fuel as we did makes me think that there hasn't been a prior intelligent species (or at all?).
If it is aliens would they tell us? Or like most stories would there be a coverup?
Currently 50 million people do not exist in the US because of abortion. That's 16% of the population.
If they did they can all live at your house.
What's most interesting is that it's usually the most religious people who buy into the Republican Party's ideology, which includes "grabbing whatever you can get" and espousing Ayn Rand-style objectivist philosophy.
Check out this story on npr: http://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/...
Basically it would appear religion is in politics for the same reason anything else is, fat cats want more money. Whoda thought?
Must be tough avoiding electricians, plumbers, HVAC guys, busses, trucks, etc who get by on mirrors. Not sure of statistics but I'm guessing things aren't too bad else the NHTSA wouldn't (shouldn't?) be preoccupied with backup cameras and making the roof stronger.
Just had a thought...Assuming agriculture has complete domain over the water on their land only, if residential, etc users end up with a 100% sustainable system from reprocessing, conservation and non farm sources, agriculture users can go fuck themselves when their wells dry up! Sure the price of food will double for a generation while everything gets resorted but hey, that's way easier than addressing the issue ahead of time.
They aren't a perfectly matching peg, but apparently the substitution is adequate.
Don't worry, there are plenty of perfectly matching pegs on the market as well...
Ok 1% a year may well be shabby....but the US (and the world) still has an economy so there's that.
Yall can argue TARP wasn't executed in the best way (agreed) and might not have fixed the underlying problem (agreed) but none the less, it happened at a time when everyone agreed we were in a worst case scenario and now we're not. If you add that in, its more like 10000% ROI.
If a hypothesis built on 100's of years of physics and real world observations from the top of the troposphere to the bottom of the ocean by tens (hundreds?) of thousands of logic minded individuals counts as "wild speculation" in your book, I highly encourage you to check the definitions of "wild" and "speculation". Even if it is all a conspiracy/hoax/any other denialist bullshit, AGW certainly does not qualify as wild speculation.
Another fun game would be to hold yourself to a standard of: results less than 100% in any activity = failure. 98% on a math test in 3rd grade? You failed school. That seems to be how you came to your standard of "wrong".
The pickup is in the works...
http://jalopnik.com/tesla-will...
Regarding the motorcycle, would you take a harley?
http://www.autoblog.com/2014/1...
Yeah but how many people have enough innate skill to be a household name 300 years after their death? If you're running a company who's business is to write and maintain millions of lines of code, you're going to have a problem finding 100's or 1000's of people with elite innate skill. Especially since you're competing against 100's of other companies that are doing basically the same thing.
The point is you don't need to be Einstein to be a programmer. Like you said, enough time and practice and you'll probably be at least average no matter who you are. Most programming jobs are like any job, they don't need (or pay for) exceptional so average is usually good enough. My guess is the real issue is letting the average joe into the club.