And there's the single greatest problem. There are assholes out there who spend their days sprinkling "citation needed"s around like they were pixie dust. The most unremarkable non-controversial everyone-knows third-grade logic kind of statements get one, and, once applied, can never, ever be gotten rid of. "Shallots have an oniony/garlicky flavor" [citation needed]. And so it will remain until the end of time. Try deleting it and wait to see how it takes for someone to revert it. More futile yet, try to find a "non-anecdotal" reference to satisfy the pixie-dusters.
As recently as 2010, most airlines buying Boeing's big 777 opted for nine seats across. Now it's 10 across on 70 percent of newly-built 777s, Boeing says.
That's a really good argument you made there for compulsory reading comprehension captchas. Unfortunately, you apparently failed to notice that you don't know how to understand what you read before you start flaming. Apparently you decided to post AC for a good reason.
So ~30 hostage-takers get to override the other 500 House and Senate members? We have a first-past-the-post system, which guarantees a 2-party system. If we had a proportional system, we could have these kind of splinter groups in a coalition government, much the way Israel runs. But when one faction holds its breath until it turns blue, the whole government can fall. We HAD a national referendum on Obamacare, i.e. the last presidential election, where the Republicans were the ones who wanted to make the election about it - AND THEY LOST.
Obama is to the RIGHT of people like Eisenhower and Nixon, FAR to the right of people like Dirksen.
I've looked at your trolling^Wposting history, I'm not going to further engage such a belligerent know-nothing as yourself, thump your chest and go away.
No. Enough. There's a natural human inclination, when listening to two other parties argue, to assume that the sensible position is somewhere in the middle. That's how, in the last 20 years, the Far Right has dragged the goalposts so far into extremest right-wing nutter land that a "moderate Republican" like Barak Obama can be vilified as a wild-eyed socialist. The Tea Party are extremists, plain and simple. The Koch brothers are plutocrats, plain and simple. They are both at war with democracy, the middle class and the very NOTION of government, plain and simple. We can start a thoughtful debate when we start to recognize the facts on the ground.
Don't even bother wasting your breath on being thoughtful. The Right hasn't a single idea of their own beyond "fuck the rest of you - especially Obama". Every time a REAL issue like this comes up, the signal-to-troll ratio approaches zero. I'd LOVE to have an honest discussion about what a disappointment this guy has been, but it ain't gonna happen here on/.
They're trying to draw a distinction between computation and experimentation. Essentially, they're saying that if your model/mental-map of the problem is good enough, i.e. you have good predictive power over your methods, then you are performing a calculation/computation. If you're not so certain of the outcome, then it's experimentation. But I do agree, it's kind of a semantic knife's edge.
Most of the employees in the mom and pop stores are able to get jobs at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart also provides many jobs, particularly in IT, that simply don't exist in mom and pop shops.
So you can't do simple arithmetic? A single Wal-Mart drives dozens of stores out of business and you think that all those employees get (lower paying) jobs at Wal-Mart? And a few thousand IT employees nationwide somehow balances that?
The "enormous opportunities for increases in productivity and efficiency" you're talking about actually DECREASE the number of jobs available, and make the remaining (or newly "created" (i.e. refactored)) both lower-skilled and lower-payed.
Welfare state? Really? The only place in the US that a "welfare state" exists is in the fantasy Faux News alternate reality echo chamber. Anybody who even uses the term is living in delusion. You and I BOTH know that corporate and personal taxes are MUCH lower than in the 50s and 60s and that the overall economy is demonstrably worse since they have gone down. FACT: higher corporate taxes leads to reinvestment in the company, which leads to an expanding economy. Lower corporate taxes leads to wealth hoarding, which leads to a shrinking economy.
In short, you're an idiot who needs to stop drinking Rush Limbaugh's Kool-Aid.
OK, you win the Specious Award for today. Wal-Mart hires people on the bottom rung because they can get away with paying them the least. By concentrating on price, only on price, coupled with astronomical volumes, and their arm-twisting style, Wal-Mart has started the whole world on the race to the bottom. It's not just the jobs of the local store employees, it's also all the jobs of all of Wal-Mart's SUPPLIERS. They've driven down the labor costs (read wages) of everyone in their supply chain. Only suppliers large enough, and willing to be every bit as evil are able to supply their voracious needs. They've driven every mom-and-pop store in every town out of business. That's an awful lot of accountants and shelf-stockers and cashiers and managers spread out over a lot of small stores who are "redundant" at a large regional Wal-Mart. Now they're trying to do it to all the grocery stores.
...the amount of energy released through the fusion reaction exceeded the amount of energy being absorbed by the fuel...
"Energy released" is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than "energy generated". They've simply reached the point where causing a fusion reaction doesn't require more input energy than the reaction itself releases - HARNESSING the released energy (a large chunk of which is energetic neutrons, i.e. not recoverable) is another matter entirely.
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And there's the single greatest problem. There are assholes out there who spend their days sprinkling "citation needed"s around like they were pixie dust. The most unremarkable non-controversial everyone-knows third-grade logic kind of statements get one, and, once applied, can never, ever be gotten rid of. "Shallots have an oniony/garlicky flavor" [citation needed]. And so it will remain until the end of time. Try deleting it and wait to see how it takes for someone to revert it. More futile yet, try to find a "non-anecdotal" reference to satisfy the pixie-dusters.
That's a really good argument you made there for compulsory reading comprehension captchas. Unfortunately, you apparently failed to notice that you don't know how to understand what you read before you start flaming. Apparently you decided to post AC for a good reason.
Everybody knows that when you cross a brown bear and a polar bear you get a chupacabra.
You misspelled "batshit-insane".
Fusion power has been 20 years in the future for the last 50. Now it's only 15!
So ~30 hostage-takers get to override the other 500 House and Senate members? We have a first-past-the-post system, which guarantees a 2-party system. If we had a proportional system, we could have these kind of splinter groups in a coalition government, much the way Israel runs. But when one faction holds its breath until it turns blue, the whole government can fall. We HAD a national referendum on Obamacare, i.e. the last presidential election, where the Republicans were the ones who wanted to make the election about it - AND THEY LOST.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them in summer school.
Whoosh.
On a related note, anybody else having flashbacks from the old Mrs. Agnew's Diary column?
Sounds like an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
"Corporations are people, my friend."
That argument would apply to television sets themselves. Doesn't hold water.
Obama is to the RIGHT of people like Eisenhower and Nixon, FAR to the right of people like Dirksen.
I've looked at your trolling^Wposting history, I'm not going to further engage such a belligerent know-nothing as yourself, thump your chest and go away.
Thanks for proving my point.
No. Enough. There's a natural human inclination, when listening to two other parties argue, to assume that the sensible position is somewhere in the middle. That's how, in the last 20 years, the Far Right has dragged the goalposts so far into extremest right-wing nutter land that a "moderate Republican" like Barak Obama can be vilified as a wild-eyed socialist. The Tea Party are extremists, plain and simple. The Koch brothers are plutocrats, plain and simple. They are both at war with democracy, the middle class and the very NOTION of government, plain and simple. We can start a thoughtful debate when we start to recognize the facts on the ground.
:)
But you ARE right about Larry Ellison
Don't even bother wasting your breath on being thoughtful. The Right hasn't a single idea of their own beyond "fuck the rest of you - especially Obama". Every time a REAL issue like this comes up, the signal-to-troll ratio approaches zero. I'd LOVE to have an honest discussion about what a disappointment this guy has been, but it ain't gonna happen here on /.
I'm worried that my campfire is going to burn down all the forests and destroy the atmosphere.
Like Slashdot, for example?
You fool! You weren't supposed to look!
That can't be true; if it were, more of them would be dead.
Should my sarcasm detector have redlined?
They're trying to draw a distinction between computation and experimentation. Essentially, they're saying that if your model/mental-map of the problem is good enough, i.e. you have good predictive power over your methods, then you are performing a calculation/computation. If you're not so certain of the outcome, then it's experimentation. But I do agree, it's kind of a semantic knife's edge.
So you can't do simple arithmetic? A single Wal-Mart drives dozens of stores out of business and you think that all those employees get (lower paying) jobs at Wal-Mart? And a few thousand IT employees nationwide somehow balances that?
The "enormous opportunities for increases in productivity and efficiency" you're talking about actually DECREASE the number of jobs available, and make the remaining (or newly "created" (i.e. refactored)) both lower-skilled and lower-payed.
Welfare state? Really? The only place in the US that a "welfare state" exists is in the fantasy Faux News alternate reality echo chamber. Anybody who even uses the term is living in delusion. You and I BOTH know that corporate and personal taxes are MUCH lower than in the 50s and 60s and that the overall economy is demonstrably worse since they have gone down. FACT: higher corporate taxes leads to reinvestment in the company, which leads to an expanding economy. Lower corporate taxes leads to wealth hoarding, which leads to a shrinking economy.
In short, you're an idiot who needs to stop drinking Rush Limbaugh's Kool-Aid.
OK, you win the Specious Award for today. Wal-Mart hires people on the bottom rung because they can get away with paying them the least. By concentrating on price, only on price, coupled with astronomical volumes, and their arm-twisting style, Wal-Mart has started the whole world on the race to the bottom. It's not just the jobs of the local store employees, it's also all the jobs of all of Wal-Mart's SUPPLIERS. They've driven down the labor costs (read wages) of everyone in their supply chain. Only suppliers large enough, and willing to be every bit as evil are able to supply their voracious needs. They've driven every mom-and-pop store in every town out of business. That's an awful lot of accountants and shelf-stockers and cashiers and managers spread out over a lot of small stores who are "redundant" at a large regional Wal-Mart. Now they're trying to do it to all the grocery stores.
"Energy released" is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than "energy generated". They've simply reached the point where causing a fusion reaction doesn't require more input energy than the reaction itself releases - HARNESSING the released energy (a large chunk of which is energetic neutrons, i.e. not recoverable) is another matter entirely.
Really? That's a "Troll"? Looks like somebody doesn't like admitting they're living in a police state.