The yellow light phase is supposed to be long enough for a person driving the speed limit to come to a complete stop in a vehicle with functioning brakes and a normal human response time before the light turns red. If they are reducing the yellow light phase to the point where it is physically impossible to stop before the light turns red, then what?
Yeah, I paid for a car, and now I want a faster car that can carry 100 people, and I have to pay again?
What does that have to do with anything? I paid for a 6mbit connection, and now I have to pay again if I want to actually use my 6mbit connection for more than a few seconds at a time?
As for math, eh, addition and subtraction pretty much covers it in today's games.
Math stuff is overrated anyway. Now, looking at the weather report for the week to determine how much raw material you should buy, then figure out what you're going to charge for a cold cup of lemonade, that's a real lesson for you. Oh, and you have $10, how many bags of sugar can you buy at $2.15 a bag, how many lemons can you buy at $1 a pound, how many small/medium/large cups you can buy... and then how many cups can you make if you adjust your recipe just so, and will anyone drink that nasty mess? (Oh wait, did I say that math was overrated?)
Someone should make a lemonade stand mod for grand theft auto. Set up your stand, buy some sugar and lemons, sell lemonade, and take a flamethrower to the little kid's stand across the street. Educational AND fun!
The complete commodification of the rights to pollute simply mean that companies will simply find a way to price in the dollar value of pollution credits to get away with whatever they are doing now.... It takes a real fundamentalist (or a complete idiot) to attempt to solve market failure by the application of more market instruments. When I go to the supermarket and look for plastic baggies to put lunches in, am I going to buy the ones that cost $150 because the company making them decided that retooling its factories wasn't necessary when they could just make us pay for their pollution, or the $2.50 baggies made by a factory that did?
That's the theory, anyway. Supposedly this would work for anything from companies whining about the government banning them from poisoning more than X/1000000 people to companies burning tires in their front yard. In reality, everyone would charge $200 for baggies, whine publicly that big bad government is making them lose so much money and that the modifications they did to their factory were so expensive, while lying about actually having changed anything, bribing inspectors to say that their smokestacks output pure rainbow-scented bunny farts, and writing gradeschool textbooks that explain that rainbow-scented bunny farts just looks pitch black. The rest go to ale and whores for the CEOs, because it's not like they're going to share it with the stockholders by paying them a dividend.
anybody that thinks democrats are the answer to republicans is as rational as preferring to be stabbed in the back vs stabbed to your face - you still end up stabbed.
The problem is that people come in two flavors: those that don't want to see it coming, and those that do.
only valid if it is done on the same scale. Except that your scale is meaningless.
What does British Telecom have to do with internet access in the Netherlands? What does XS4ALL have to do with internet access in Britain? The European Union isn't so old that network infrastructure has become a continental issue, internet providers there are still very much bounded by the geopolitical borders they grew up in.
Meanwhile in the US, what does California and Florida have in common with Texas and Wisconsin? If you said AT&T, you win! On the one hand you can argue that that's not fair since it's only true after the recent merging of the Baby Bells, but on the other hand that nationwide infrastructure was laid out by Ma Bell before the breakup in 1984, leading to less than 25 years of separation anxiety and independent development. Development since the merger has been under the AT&T umbrella: in Houston, TX after the purchase the promised SBC Lightspeed (fiber-to-the-premises) fiber rollout was scrapped and replaced with ATT Uverse (fiber-to-the-node). The premise of nationwide holding of network infrastructure continues to be true even for nations that are 2500 miles wide, without "lumping" in Canada (not sure where you're getting that idea, OECD's data here treats Canada as it's own nation).
Metropolitan states like New Jersey, Maryland, or Massachusetts are just as fast as metropolitan states like France, Germany, or Italy.
But do you have numbers that show that? The PDF here is a report based on different data (median connection rates as determined by an online speed test) but they show that Maryland has a median speed of 2.04mbps, Massachusetts at 3mbps, and New Jersey, 3.68. Now, this state-by-state comparison here is based on actual results of speed tests rather than the marketing claims (as the OECD report is based on) so at the same time, this basis of this report is both A) more accurate with regards to real world performance, and B) probably has a huge bias towards people who think their internet connection is "too slow" and want to see what speed they're actually getting for their money, but if you can find a breakdown of the marketing material that went into the OECD report by state, I'm all for seeing what companies in New Jersey are claiming to be able to deliver.
Then maybe you could get generation-based degradation
I think the idea is that maybe the measurement will be slightly off in the first generation, leading to the track the head runs on to be slightly wider in the second generation, leading to a machine that stretches everything it produces by 0.05% in one dimension in the third generation, which just happens to have been assembled so that the nozzle points along the other axis and produces things stretched by 0.05% in one dimension while 0.05% thicker in the other, and so on.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/11/12/New-broadband-data-shows-the-US-is-still-behind_1.html seems to refer to those statistics... the funny thing is, according to that article: "Japan and South Korea had much higher speeds than in the U.S. The average advertised download speed in Japan was 93.7Mbps, while France and South Korea both had averages of more than 43Mbps. The average download speed in the U.S. in October was 8.9Mbps, while it was 10.6Mbps in the U.K. and 12.1Mbps in Australia", and "The U.S. ranked 19th out of 30 in average broadband speeds. Turkey and Mexico were the lowest, both with an average of less than 2Mbps." But hey, the guy says he's "being honest" by apparently merging all the lower-scoring European nations into the "European Union" designation in order to hogtie all the other nations with faster average speeds than ours.
Other interesting quotes from the article: "The U.S. range for a monthly subscription was between $14.99 for lower speeds and $199.99 for the top level of service. Only four of the 30 OECD countries had a lower low-end price."
"In South Korea, the range was $30.56 to $50.93 for the highest speed of service, and in Japan, the range was $21.22 to $131.57."
You won't even risk a job you most likely hate anyway? Whistle-blower laws exist because companies don't exactly line up to hire such paragons of virtue and honesty.
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Sounds like the beginning of a half-scale arms race. Oh yeah? Well I'm going to start work on my quarter-scale destroyer fleet!
"it's natural to have sex when you are 12, it's good to be gay, it's great to be promiscuous and "experiment", it's best to stick to oral/anal/manual so you don't suffer the consequences (and here are come booklets to teach you about that), or just use these free condoms/dams here; don't listed to your parents and hide your activities from them. And yeah, we can give you free IUDs/pills/abortions so long as you won't let your parents know"
[citation needed (other than NAMBLA)]
and the nazi eugenics programs of yore.
Condoms existed before the nazis. Try harder, your lies suck.
Usually civil wars begin when a group of people not in power attack the established government, rather than the established government deciding to attack civilians in "domestic military operations", but I suppose there's a first time for everything.
Becomes kind of pointless when the internet speed is a few times faster than your hard drive can handle.
Yeah, but with a connection like that, Comcast would only have to compress HD channels to half their normal quality in order to get them all to fit in the tube!
Health care costs more now in large part because we have many more, and more expensive, treatments
current therapies for childhood leukemia treatment have reached their peak effectiveness. Most drugs in current use were designed in the 1960s, with few major additions to the treatment arsenal since the late 1970s. Most clinical research has focused on the doses and schedules for administering the existing drugs rather than testing new, innovative therapies
free market DID work in health care for many, many years.
The problem with the good old days, is that they generally weren't.
I'm not finding any serious study on google that relates equivalence of health care "then and now" versus the cost of a median patient receiving that equivalent care, between billions of articles hawking how the total expenditure on health care is outpacing inflation.
For all I know, everyone used to just let their sick kids die, now they have insurance.
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Well, at the end, the detective got everyone into one big room and had them all sit down...
The yellow light phase is supposed to be long enough for a person driving the speed limit to come to a complete stop in a vehicle with functioning brakes and a normal human response time before the light turns red. If they are reducing the yellow light phase to the point where it is physically impossible to stop before the light turns red, then what?
But then again, life's not fair.
So if life's not fair, why ban "cheating" with drugs? Cheating is part of being unfair.
the best choice
Define "best choice"?
Yeah, I paid for a car, and now I want a faster car that can carry 100 people, and I have to pay again?
What does that have to do with anything? I paid for a 6mbit connection, and now I have to pay again if I want to actually use my 6mbit connection for more than a few seconds at a time?
What more could an educator ask for?
Something that can be put onto a standardized test?
As for math, eh, addition and subtraction pretty much covers it in today's games.
Math stuff is overrated anyway. Now, looking at the weather report for the week to determine how much raw material you should buy, then figure out what you're going to charge for a cold cup of lemonade, that's a real lesson for you. Oh, and you have $10, how many bags of sugar can you buy at $2.15 a bag, how many lemons can you buy at $1 a pound, how many small/medium/large cups you can buy... and then how many cups can you make if you adjust your recipe just so, and will anyone drink that nasty mess? (Oh wait, did I say that math was overrated?)
Someone should make a lemonade stand mod for grand theft auto. Set up your stand, buy some sugar and lemons, sell lemonade, and take a flamethrower to the little kid's stand across the street. Educational AND fun!
But why would I want a flash drive built into it also
Because it makes the thing useful when you're not installing windows.
That's the theory, anyway. Supposedly this would work for anything from companies whining about the government banning them from poisoning more than X/1000000 people to companies burning tires in their front yard. In reality, everyone would charge $200 for baggies, whine publicly that big bad government is making them lose so much money and that the modifications they did to their factory were so expensive, while lying about actually having changed anything, bribing inspectors to say that their smokestacks output pure rainbow-scented bunny farts, and writing gradeschool textbooks that explain that rainbow-scented bunny farts just looks pitch black. The rest go to ale and whores for the CEOs, because it's not like they're going to share it with the stockholders by paying them a dividend.
Wow, I think I've got myself a new coloring scheme :D
I had been using one of the schemes that came with vim that I tweaked a bit, but I think this one will be easier on the eyes.
anybody that thinks democrats are the answer to republicans is as rational as preferring to be stabbed in the back vs stabbed to your face - you still end up stabbed.
The problem is that people come in two flavors: those that don't want to see it coming, and those that do.
What does British Telecom have to do with internet access in the Netherlands? What does XS4ALL have to do with internet access in Britain? The European Union isn't so old that network infrastructure has become a continental issue, internet providers there are still very much bounded by the geopolitical borders they grew up in.
Meanwhile in the US, what does California and Florida have in common with Texas and Wisconsin? If you said AT&T, you win! On the one hand you can argue that that's not fair since it's only true after the recent merging of the Baby Bells, but on the other hand that nationwide infrastructure was laid out by Ma Bell before the breakup in 1984, leading to less than 25 years of separation anxiety and independent development. Development since the merger has been under the AT&T umbrella: in Houston, TX after the purchase the promised SBC Lightspeed (fiber-to-the-premises) fiber rollout was scrapped and replaced with ATT Uverse (fiber-to-the-node). The premise of nationwide holding of network infrastructure continues to be true even for nations that are 2500 miles wide, without "lumping" in Canada (not sure where you're getting that idea, OECD's data here treats Canada as it's own nation).
Metropolitan states like New Jersey, Maryland, or Massachusetts are just as fast as metropolitan states like France, Germany, or Italy.
But do you have numbers that show that? The PDF here is a report based on different data (median connection rates as determined by an online speed test) but they show that Maryland has a median speed of 2.04mbps, Massachusetts at 3mbps, and New Jersey, 3.68. Now, this state-by-state comparison here is based on actual results of speed tests rather than the marketing claims (as the OECD report is based on) so at the same time, this basis of this report is both A) more accurate with regards to real world performance, and B) probably has a huge bias towards people who think their internet connection is "too slow" and want to see what speed they're actually getting for their money, but if you can find a breakdown of the marketing material that went into the OECD report by state, I'm all for seeing what companies in New Jersey are claiming to be able to deliver.
Then maybe you could get generation-based degradation
I think the idea is that maybe the measurement will be slightly off in the first generation, leading to the track the head runs on to be slightly wider in the second generation, leading to a machine that stretches everything it produces by 0.05% in one dimension in the third generation, which just happens to have been assembled so that the nozzle points along the other axis and produces things stretched by 0.05% in one dimension while 0.05% thicker in the other, and so on.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/11/12/New-broadband-data-shows-the-US-is-still-behind_1.html seems to refer to those statistics... the funny thing is, according to that article: "Japan and South Korea had much higher speeds than in the U.S. The average advertised download speed in Japan was 93.7Mbps, while France and South Korea both had averages of more than 43Mbps. The average download speed in the U.S. in October was 8.9Mbps, while it was 10.6Mbps in the U.K. and 12.1Mbps in Australia", and "The U.S. ranked 19th out of 30 in average broadband speeds. Turkey and Mexico were the lowest, both with an average of less than 2Mbps." But hey, the guy says he's "being honest" by apparently merging all the lower-scoring European nations into the "European Union" designation in order to hogtie all the other nations with faster average speeds than ours.
Other interesting quotes from the article: "The U.S. range for a monthly subscription was between $14.99 for lower speeds and $199.99 for the top level of service. Only four of the 30 OECD countries had a lower low-end price."
"In South Korea, the range was $30.56 to $50.93 for the highest speed of service, and in Japan, the range was $21.22 to $131.57."
If you moved the infinity apple a little further to the left, it could fit a little better.
Maybe, but then the cores of the apples wouldn't have lined up in the middle.
"it's natural to have sex when you are 12, it's good to be gay, it's great to be promiscuous and "experiment", it's best to stick to oral/anal/manual so you don't suffer the consequences (and here are come booklets to teach you about that), or just use these free condoms/dams here; don't listed to your parents and hide your activities from them. And yeah, we can give you free IUDs/pills/abortions so long as you won't let your parents know"
[citation needed (other than NAMBLA)]
and the nazi eugenics programs of yore.
Condoms existed before the nazis. Try harder, your lies suck.
but you can't build a radio tower with happy thoughts and bubblegum.
Throw in a few dozen metal coathangers and we can get started on construction.
Usually civil wars begin when a group of people not in power attack the established government, rather than the established government deciding to attack civilians in "domestic military operations", but I suppose there's a first time for everything.
Becomes kind of pointless when the internet speed is a few times faster than your hard drive can handle.
Yeah, but with a connection like that, Comcast would only have to compress HD channels to half their normal quality in order to get them all to fit in the tube!
"pretending to by Anonymous"? Careful, you're starting to believe in your own bullshit.
Well, if they were identified, then they weren't actually "anonymous", now were they?
How much do those same drugs cost now (they're generics by now, right? Can I get them at my neighborhood pharmacy alongside their other $5 generics?), how much did they cost in the 70's?
What about a simple broken leg, which is almost never fatal? How much did it cost to get an xray, set the bone, and get a cast back then? Now?
Health care costs more now in large part because we have many more, and more expensive, treatments.
So I assumed. Or, to put it another way, "for all I know, the price of leg casts has increased 5 millionfold."
free market DID work in health care for many, many years.
The problem with the good old days, is that they generally weren't.
I'm not finding any serious study on google that relates equivalence of health care "then and now" versus the cost of a median patient receiving that equivalent care, between billions of articles hawking how the total expenditure on health care is outpacing inflation.
For all I know, everyone used to just let their sick kids die, now they have insurance.