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  1. Re:Software support on Where Are All the High-Resolution Desktop Displays? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Good news: the 4k television standard is going to break this egg by delivering a working chicken, and computers will then promptly figure out how to adjust.

  2. Re:Because nobody cares? on Where Are All the High-Resolution Desktop Displays? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Can you really not see the pixels? I suspect something to be wrong with your eyes.

  3. Re:It's not a tax, it's an improvement on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    If you're talking about the SC's authority, that's A3S2.
    SS was enacted 1935, constitutionality settled 1937.
    Medicare enacted 1965, and apparently so widely agreed upon to be constitutional that it has never been challenged in court.

  4. Re:It's not a tax, it's an improvement on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    As long as we get a matching tax on the rightists for the same reason.

  5. Re:It's not a tax, it's an improvement on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    Yes?

  6. Re:how lame can you get on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    Your claim, while true, does not run counter to mine, and I'm not sure why you seem to think it does.

  7. Re:It's not a tax, it's an improvement on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    I'd say it's all about where to draw the line on poor. I think both are poor. The starving ones are just poorer.

  8. Re:It's not a tax, it's an improvement on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    Well, the Constitution says the Supreme Court is the ultimate arbiter of what it says, and they've decided in favor of SS and medicare.

  9. Re:It's not a tax, it's an improvement on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    That has worked out so well with meth.

  10. Re:People should pay for their choices on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    It's not free to GET TO A HOSPITAL. That requires travel, which is something the moderately wealthy don't think about as an expense. But when you choose between bus fare to the hospital and food, life is hard.

  11. Re:It's not a tax, it's an improvement on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    Of course, my point is that without the tax, no educational campaign. Not that that was all the tax resulted in.

  12. Re:It's not a tax, it's an improvement on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    The constitution says the laws passed by congress are the laws, just giving them the authority of the constitution. Medicaid is a law of congress, with constitutional authority that is not in doubt.

  13. Re:People should pay for their choices on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 0

    It's probably unlikely to be a choice in the sense you think. When you have to choose between getting to the hospital for preventive care and providing the next meal for your child, you aren't really choosing to forgo the healthcare.

  14. Re:People should pay for their choices on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 4, Funny

    You might want to rethink your handle.

  15. Re:It's not a tax, it's an improvement on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    Indeed, Social Security is the most regressive tax in America. It hits low income workers the hardest with its cap on contributions, and pays out mostly to richer Americans who live longer.

  16. Re:It's not a tax, it's an improvement on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 0

    The reason it's 'ok' is that you also made your money by theft at gunpoint. If it weren't for the police and military, you wouldn't have your assets/capital/education etc that enabled you to make your money in the first place.

  17. Re:It's not a tax, it's an improvement on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How about funding the mandated responsibility to provide emergency and ongoing healthcare for obese poor people?

  18. Re:It's not a tax, it's an improvement on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You know those educational campaigns were funded by the tax, right?

  19. Re:Quite Obvious, Even to Me on What Struck Earth in 775? · · Score: 1

    Abusive moderation: go get 'em metamods.

  20. Re:Behind the Sun?! on What Struck Earth in 775? · · Score: 1

    Metamods: Abusive moderation alert.

  21. Re:simple: imperative, portable, objects, librarie on Why Do Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail? · · Score: 1

    Abusive moderation alert.

  22. Re:Effect on Carbon dating? on What Struck Earth in 775? · · Score: 1

    Abusive moderation alert.

  23. Re:Because of stupid names on Why Do Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail? · · Score: 0

    Surely that must suffer from a lot of exotic porn polluting the results?

  24. simple: imperative, portable, objects, libraries on Why Do Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail? · · Score: 0

    C took off because it allowed imperative programming more easily (and portably) than assembler, and functional programming in C is ridiculously painful. Cobol had a briefly popular stint based on the strength of its libraries for business. C++ added objects, and by some miracle made functional programming even uglier. Java added a sane library (and made portability even less of an issue), and provided a pattern for functional programming so difficult to use everyone hates it instantly.

    And that's the complete history of the really popular languages. Nothing else even comes close to having been used as much, and weaknesses in those four areas are what's to blame:

    Lisp: functional by design
    Python: functional too easy, poor library compared to established java
    PHP: library too insane
    Basic: never had the libraries to compete with C, objects too late to compete with c++, inconsistencies rendered code non-portable

    etc.

  25. Re:Effect on Carbon dating? on What Struck Earth in 775? · · Score: 0

    MW gives 4 (plus two subdefinitions):
    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myth

    1
    a : a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon b : parable, allegory
    2
    a : a popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone; especially : one embodying the ideals and institutions of a society or segment of society b : an unfounded or false notion
    3
    : a person or thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence
    4
    : the whole body of myths

    And Christianity meets 1a,b, 2a,b, 3, but not 4. 5 out of 6 isn't bad!