Because having a bunch of janitors who are philosophy majors means that when it comes time to vote, we aren't going to elect a bunch of morons next go around because we have a generation of people who find it pleasurable and worth their while to be educated on the merits of education.
Also it means that being a janitor isn't such a bad job when you don't have to worry about student loan payments eating into your income.
We're also fighting major wars overseas with historically low tax rates.
If we set the top marginal tax rate to like 40% instead of 35, and closed corporate tax loopholes and taxed HFT at like a fraction of a penny per trade and stopped fighting expensive wars, we could easily afford to do a lot of things.
The problem isn't the budget deficit itself, it's the amount we owe in interest and our obligations on our debt. If we can pay that off, then the deficit itself doesn't matter.
Because as a collective whole, tax payers can afford to pay for college for everyone. But as individuals, a lot of people are falling through the cracks because of socioeconomic imbalance. Even people who would've been well off a generation ago are struggling.
Why bother doing anything on a collective group level if it means someone has to pay for anything to help anyone else? I mean, it's not my house on fire or me that's being mugged, what's in it for me? I drive, why bother paying for public transport infrastructure?
yeah but no game is going to be as good as MGS V: The Phantom Pain.
Even if the gameplay is as good or better, I'm pretty invested at this point in the story line so, I care about that more than just raw gameplay.
If the gameplay is awful then whee hype train just plowed through the terminus and completely derails, but all reports seem to be that yes, it's worth the hype.
First, why is it the purpose of higher education to get you a job?
You, like a lot of other people in tech nerdy spaces are confusing higher education with vocational training.
From your example, getting a degree in Women's Studies might not be great for finding a job alone, but if you're interested in understanding the context that women live in, then it's invaluable and you can't put a price on it.
Second, even if it is free, getting a CS degree or a physics degree or an MD or any other degree that is difficult still requires you to actually show up and do the work. You're just now burdened only by doing the work and not figuring out how to pay for the privilege of working your brains out to get a mastery of that subject matter.
Yes, because it's a good idea to give out college level educations.
Like, getting a BA in Philosophy might not be a great way to have a career, but it is worth it to round out one's education.
The idea that the firs twelve years of someone's education should have a free tier but any education after that comes out of our own pockets is laughable.
That's not to say that there's not a place for private institutions that charge tuition, but with the way things are going, we're going to have to prop up public universities and colleges anyway, so why not just make it free and stop squeezing students?
Like pirating big media's work, whatever. I think it's devaluing the work, but not theft. In the aggregate it might suck because it makes it harder to continue making work, like in the case of some games, anime, manga and comics.
Using someone else's work to make money? That's a dick move. If you're a big corporation and using an artists work with out them getting credit? You've deprived someone of something in a huge way. That's theft in some degree.
They function differently, but to most folks, they appear exactly the same. This is how gun-control types inject fear, uncertainty and doubt into the debate.
He's talking about gun FUD.
Calling an AR-15 an "assault weapon" isn't FUD. AR-15s are marketed as weapons used to assault people. They're designed for assault. As opposed to pepper spray or a taser which, while unpleasant and possibly deadly, they're marketed for defensive use and not optimized for maximum death.
Also cite your sources and explain yourself. What do you mean by firearm related crime goes up? Are more people getting busted with owning an illegal firearm AND committing crime when they'd otherwise just be charged with just the crime? How are you defining these terms? Do more people get guns because they're banned?
Yes, saying that a gun is more likely to kill a person in their own home is FUD but that we need guns to repel invaders or fight a tyrannical Federal Government isn't FUD.
I'm sorry but, firearms are largely designed for killing. Either animals or humans. Yes you can kill someone with a book or a car or a baseball bat, but no one's marketing books, cars or sports gear by telling you how efficiently and effectively you can end someone's life with their product.
i hope they change the branding away from games so they won't feel so pressured into selling me preorders for games I don't give a shit about when I walk in for replacement cables or whatever it is i need.
Yeah, but the USB Implementers Forum has final say about who can use what USB port and why.
The use cases for USB 3.1 and Thunderbolt are different too. I wouldn't want a joystick plugging in via thunderbolt and I wouldn't want to plug in a RAID array full of hyper fast disks in via USB.
Swarms of unemployed people attempting to influence discussion online?
No. Our corporations and politicians aren't that smart, or well organized. They may be malicious but I don't think they've got the gumption to properly be this corrupt and evil.
If you have a dingus that plugs into the mains on one end and has USB-C on the other, then it has to conform to certain standards. If it has USB-C and connected to a battery, I'm pretty sure it doesn't need to supply 100W.
NT4 was fine. Windows 2000 was fine. XP was fine. Vista was fine. 7 was fine. 8 was fine but had weird UI issues and now 10 is going to be just as fine.
The bothersome thing here though is that MIDI support should be pretty much baked in to the base OS. Doesn't Android support ALSA? Doesn't ALSA have MIDI?
I mean, iOS has had MIDI support since iOS 4.2.
While a tablet isn't going to replace a full soundboard soon, for musicians on a budget or a bunch of folks getting together for a jam session it's great. Unlike a soundboard it fits easily into a bag and goes where ever there's a flat surface to put it down on.
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Because having a bunch of janitors who are philosophy majors means that when it comes time to vote, we aren't going to elect a bunch of morons next go around because we have a generation of people who find it pleasurable and worth their while to be educated on the merits of education.
Also it means that being a janitor isn't such a bad job when you don't have to worry about student loan payments eating into your income.
We're also fighting major wars overseas with historically low tax rates.
If we set the top marginal tax rate to like 40% instead of 35, and closed corporate tax loopholes and taxed HFT at like a fraction of a penny per trade and stopped fighting expensive wars, we could easily afford to do a lot of things.
The problem isn't the budget deficit itself, it's the amount we owe in interest and our obligations on our debt. If we can pay that off, then the deficit itself doesn't matter.
Because as a collective whole, tax payers can afford to pay for college for everyone. But as individuals, a lot of people are falling through the cracks because of socioeconomic imbalance. Even people who would've been well off a generation ago are struggling.
Why bother doing anything on a collective group level if it means someone has to pay for anything to help anyone else? I mean, it's not my house on fire or me that's being mugged, what's in it for me? I drive, why bother paying for public transport infrastructure?
yeah but no game is going to be as good as MGS V: The Phantom Pain.
Even if the gameplay is as good or better, I'm pretty invested at this point in the story line so, I care about that more than just raw gameplay.
If the gameplay is awful then whee hype train just plowed through the terminus and completely derails, but all reports seem to be that yes, it's worth the hype.
First, why is it the purpose of higher education to get you a job?
You, like a lot of other people in tech nerdy spaces are confusing higher education with vocational training.
From your example, getting a degree in Women's Studies might not be great for finding a job alone, but if you're interested in understanding the context that women live in, then it's invaluable and you can't put a price on it.
Second, even if it is free, getting a CS degree or a physics degree or an MD or any other degree that is difficult still requires you to actually show up and do the work. You're just now burdened only by doing the work and not figuring out how to pay for the privilege of working your brains out to get a mastery of that subject matter.
Yes, because it's a good idea to give out college level educations.
Like, getting a BA in Philosophy might not be a great way to have a career, but it is worth it to round out one's education.
The idea that the firs twelve years of someone's education should have a free tier but any education after that comes out of our own pockets is laughable.
That's not to say that there's not a place for private institutions that charge tuition, but with the way things are going, we're going to have to prop up public universities and colleges anyway, so why not just make it free and stop squeezing students?
The NES got a trickle of games for it from 1991, release of the U.S. Super Nintendo, until 1995, U.S. release of the final game for the system.
So it's not been instantly.
Measuring in inches?
Yes. That's largely only an American thing.
Depending on the context, it's still a dick move.
Like pirating big media's work, whatever. I think it's devaluing the work, but not theft. In the aggregate it might suck because it makes it harder to continue making work, like in the case of some games, anime, manga and comics.
Using someone else's work to make money? That's a dick move. If you're a big corporation and using an artists work with out them getting credit? You've deprived someone of something in a huge way. That's theft in some degree.
He's talking about gun FUD.
Calling an AR-15 an "assault weapon" isn't FUD. AR-15s are marketed as weapons used to assault people. They're designed for assault. As opposed to pepper spray or a taser which, while unpleasant and possibly deadly, they're marketed for defensive use and not optimized for maximum death.
Also cite your sources and explain yourself. What do you mean by firearm related crime goes up? Are more people getting busted with owning an illegal firearm AND committing crime when they'd otherwise just be charged with just the crime? How are you defining these terms? Do more people get guns because they're banned?
Cites sources showing that defensive gun ownership is a myth.
not unless you work for Lockheed Martin
That thing has a better screen at 1080p than the MacBook has at 2304x1440?
Are you kidding?
Gunshot victim's family ordered to pay the legal feeds of ammo dealers.
American lawmakers, especially at the state level, are getting their marching orders from the gun lobby.
Even in "liberal" states like California and New York, gun control laws are getting laxer and laxer.
Yes, saying that a gun is more likely to kill a person in their own home is FUD but that we need guns to repel invaders or fight a tyrannical Federal Government isn't FUD.
I'm sorry but, firearms are largely designed for killing. Either animals or humans. Yes you can kill someone with a book or a car or a baseball bat, but no one's marketing books, cars or sports gear by telling you how efficiently and effectively you can end someone's life with their product.
A 21 pound, 21" notebook would mean you could skip leg and back day all you want.
Fuck that. I just want a charging port, external monitor and USB.
I just can't wait for the peripherals to get cheaper.
i hope they change the branding away from games so they won't feel so pressured into selling me preorders for games I don't give a shit about when I walk in for replacement cables or whatever it is i need.
Yeah, but the USB Implementers Forum has final say about who can use what USB port and why.
The use cases for USB 3.1 and Thunderbolt are different too. I wouldn't want a joystick plugging in via thunderbolt and I wouldn't want to plug in a RAID array full of hyper fast disks in via USB.
After using some experimental kernels and some really buggy distros, I can say that no, Vista was actually fine.
Relatively speaking of course, but the day to day use of Vista? Stable.
Swarms of unemployed people attempting to influence discussion online?
No. Our corporations and politicians aren't that smart, or well organized. They may be malicious but I don't think they've got the gumption to properly be this corrupt and evil.
USB Power Delivery spec.
If you have a dingus that plugs into the mains on one end and has USB-C on the other, then it has to conform to certain standards. If it has USB-C and connected to a battery, I'm pretty sure it doesn't need to supply 100W.
We've finally done it. One connector for charge, data and display.
Intel's hardware developers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
NT4 was fine. Windows 2000 was fine. XP was fine. Vista was fine. 7 was fine. 8 was fine but had weird UI issues and now 10 is going to be just as fine.
Or expecting people to use dropbox, airdrop, soundcloud, etc. for file sharing and bluetooth for accessories.
I think we might see another USB port on the next version, but I think that's missing the point.
It'd be awesome if Apple got on board with USB-C.
The bothersome thing here though is that MIDI support should be pretty much baked in to the base OS. Doesn't Android support ALSA? Doesn't ALSA have MIDI?
I mean, iOS has had MIDI support since iOS 4.2.
While a tablet isn't going to replace a full soundboard soon, for musicians on a budget or a bunch of folks getting together for a jam session it's great. Unlike a soundboard it fits easily into a bag and goes where ever there's a flat surface to put it down on.