SS was originally designed so that you'd have a certain % of people paying in that would die before they were eligible to collect. As long as we properly adjust that % to reflect changing longevity demographics, it will continue to function as it should. Ponzi schemes don't have that factor built in.
Can't we just let the invisible magical mystery hand of the market sort it out like Jayzus told us to do in the Bible? If people really want more fuel efficient cars, they'll buy them. From Japan. Just like last time.
What's the worse that could happen, the US auto industry could collapse, leaving Detroit a apocalyptic burned-out wasteland and we'd have to throw trillions of dollars at them to prop up executive bonuses? oh, wait, we already did that. Thanks US automakers!
How often have you heard of people who are lost in the woods/at sea, and who could have called for help if they had cell phone connectivity?
They could fly one of these as part of a search. Even if the owner isn't actively using the phone, the drone could detect the electronic serial number of each phone in its coverage area and match it against the lost person's phone.
+1 Thank you. A positive use for military grade technology.
Sarah Conner disagrees. (not quite sure of the correct plural usage here. Sarahs Conner ? Sarah Conners ? But what about Saras ? And O'Conners? Do T-800s implement Soundex? )
Bison's output isn't binary, it's C (a somewhat contrived and difficult to understand C, but C nevertheless). It doesn't generate "compiled binaries", as the article points out.
It's still source code. Maybe not the original source code, but source code anyway. I don't think that violates the GPL intrinsically (maybe it violates its spirit, but not the license by itself).
Which would you prefer to have to make changes to ?
Tell Elon and Robert that they can have it if they can safely keep it in orbit. Seems like that would be a perfectly cromulent shakedown mission for Salvage 1 errr, Falcon heavy.
Hell, the ISS doesn't have a purpose now. It's sole purpose was justification for the shuttle program. Honestly, we could have spent the money on actual science. Makes one wonder if the teabaggers don't have a point about useless gubbamint waste.
They were using vita rays, for gosh sake. I don't think these guys in the 40's were knowledgeable in the mechanics of genetics. So yeah, they sort of lost me there. And Red Skull wasn't foaming at the mouth batshit crazy like I remember him. Maybe he's got some character (de-)development in store?
Except for some minor inconvenience the rare occasions I can afford to fly somewhere, destroying our economy, and having to tolerate listening to whiny bed-wetters on Fox, terrorism has had little impact on my life.
Part of being debt neutral is not paying out more than you have coming in. Hence, adjusting the eligibility age to properly reflect demographic changes.
And yes, SS, originally, in theory, was supposed to be a separate item from the budget as a whole. But as you've pointed out, in reality, everybody's had their hand in that cookie jar to temporarily cover up their budget problems in other areas.
We need to fix our budget starting by reducing spending on the biggest parts of the budget first: 1. medicaid & medicare, 23%- get rid of the inefficiencies of a for-profit insurance and medical system. (I admit, this requires further study on my part), 2. social security, 20% - adjust the eligibility age to properly reflect changing demographics. Make it so it automatically adjusts in the future. It's supposed to be a safety net to avoid poverty in old age, quit selling it as part of your retirement planning. 3. military spending, 20% - try being a good neighbor instead of a raging drunken dickhead. Maybe promote Democracy, transparency and accountability instead of propping up the tin-horn dictator de jure just because he hates the guys we hate and can keep the oil flowing. Like NASA, spend the money on what we actually need, don't use this budget as a means to dispense pork. 4. discretionary spending, 19% - once we get those first three bigger portions straightened out, then we can start looking at the piddling little stuff. With NASA getting like 0.6% of the budget, there's a lot of other things that should be looked at first.
Anybody that doesn't tackle those items first is just pandering and re-arranging deckchairs on the Titanic. Fix it before it corrects itself.
no, I am not available to run for office. I will however consider calls for me to be made dictator.
Some things have longer horizons than our 2/4/6-year election cycles. Like our financial institutions, our leaders and focused way too much on the short term.
The Pres & the Congress should set goals, NASA should submit an honest budget per project, and Congress should approve them or not as a whole. No more of this micromanagement crap -- "We'll give you 7 billion this year, but you've got to use solid rocket boosters made in the congressional district from Utah. Next term, we're going to cut your budget to make cheap points with the teabaggers."
I just heard the sad news on the radio, the United States manned space program was found dead on it's runway in Cape Canaveral this morning. Foul play is suspected. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss it -- even if they didn't enjoy it's work, there's no denying it's contributions to the advancement the distribution of federal pork. Truly an American icon.
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SS was originally designed so that you'd have a certain % of people paying in that would die before they were eligible to collect.
As long as we properly adjust that % to reflect changing longevity demographics, it will continue to function as it should.
Ponzi schemes don't have that factor built in.
You know, once all units are freely convertible into standard federal LOCs, google is going to divide by zero and trigger the singularity.
hey, the self-replicating machines infesting Earth have only converted a miniscule portion of the planet's mass in to more of themselves.
Now if we could design some that could go to an asteroid, digest it, bring it back and building a orbital ring, that'd be nifty.
Can't we just let the invisible magical mystery hand of the market sort it out like Jayzus told us to do in the Bible? If people really want more fuel efficient cars, they'll buy them. From Japan. Just like last time.
What's the worse that could happen, the US auto industry could collapse, leaving Detroit a apocalyptic burned-out wasteland and we'd have to throw trillions of dollars at them to prop up executive bonuses? oh, wait, we already did that. Thanks US automakers!
How often have you heard of people who are lost in the woods/at sea, and who could have called for help if they had cell phone connectivity? They could fly one of these as part of a search. Even if the owner isn't actively using the phone, the drone could detect the electronic serial number of each phone in its coverage area and match it against the lost person's phone.
+1 Thank you. A positive use for military grade technology.
Sarah Conner disagrees.
(not quite sure of the correct plural usage here. Sarahs Conner ? Sarah Conners ? But what about Saras ? And O'Conners? Do T-800s implement Soundex? )
Bison's output isn't binary, it's C (a somewhat contrived and difficult to understand C, but C nevertheless). It doesn't generate "compiled binaries", as the article points out.
It's still source code. Maybe not the original source code, but source code anyway. I don't think that violates the GPL intrinsically (maybe it violates its spirit, but not the license by itself).
Which would you prefer to have to make changes to ?
"Good luck, I'm behind SEVEN ROT13s!"
demonstrably incorrect.
I just heard "ow! my balls" got greenlighted!
I drive a stick, you insensitive clod!
that's OK, I didn't really want my car stolen anyway...
If it's a Trojan asteroid, does that mean it's full of space Greeks?!!!
Tell Elon and Robert that they can have it if they can safely keep it in orbit. Seems like that would be a perfectly cromulent shakedown mission for Salvage 1 errr, Falcon heavy.
Hell, the ISS doesn't have a purpose now. It's sole purpose was justification for the shuttle program.
Honestly, we could have spent the money on actual science. Makes one wonder if the teabaggers don't have a point about useless gubbamint waste.
It's skylab all over again.
"oops, we don't have the launch capability to boost the station before it falls flaming from the sky"
They're going to build a giant glass bong in the desert?!!! I guess we know what the greenhouse is really for...
I guess these and thunderstorms are the most extreme weather that the structure would have to survive.
Along with whatever microweather you generate when you build a 2000+ foot tower in the desert to pump hot air into the atmosphere.
Red Mist -- so this is some sort of Kick-Ass spinoff?
but I don't see how falling through a propeller would make you a superhero...
Gotta re-do the Spiderman movie so Marvel can pry it out of Sony's hands.
They were using vita rays, for gosh sake. I don't think these guys in the 40's were knowledgeable in the mechanics of genetics. So yeah, they sort of lost me there.
And Red Skull wasn't foaming at the mouth batshit crazy like I remember him. Maybe he's got some character (de-)development in store?
but they had to monitor the peace groups to make sure that they weren't infiltrated by SPECTRE, SMERSH or HYDRA.
hint: Higgins is Robin Masters.
Except for some minor inconvenience the rare occasions I can afford to fly somewhere, destroying our economy, and having to tolerate listening to whiny bed-wetters on Fox, terrorism has had little impact on my life.
Good points, thanks.
Part of being debt neutral is not paying out more than you have coming in. Hence, adjusting the eligibility age to properly reflect demographic changes.
And yes, SS, originally, in theory, was supposed to be a separate item from the budget as a whole. But as you've pointed out, in reality, everybody's had their hand in that cookie jar to temporarily cover up their budget problems in other areas.
wrong!
We need to fix our budget starting by reducing spending on the biggest parts of the budget first:
1. medicaid & medicare, 23%- get rid of the inefficiencies of a for-profit insurance and medical system. (I admit, this requires further study on my part),
2. social security, 20% - adjust the eligibility age to properly reflect changing demographics. Make it so it automatically adjusts in the future. It's supposed to be a safety net to avoid poverty in old age, quit selling it as part of your retirement planning.
3. military spending, 20% - try being a good neighbor instead of a raging drunken dickhead. Maybe promote Democracy, transparency and accountability instead of propping up the tin-horn dictator de jure just because he hates the guys we hate and can keep the oil flowing. Like NASA, spend the money on what we actually need, don't use this budget as a means to dispense pork.
4. discretionary spending, 19% - once we get those first three bigger portions straightened out, then we can start looking at the piddling little stuff. With NASA getting like 0.6% of the budget, there's a lot of other things that should be looked at first.
Anybody that doesn't tackle those items first is just pandering and re-arranging deckchairs on the Titanic.
Fix it before it corrects itself.
no, I am not available to run for office. I will however consider calls for me to be made dictator.
Some things have longer horizons than our 2/4/6-year election cycles. Like our financial institutions, our leaders and focused way too much on the short term.
The Pres & the Congress should set goals, NASA should submit an honest budget per project, and Congress should approve them or not as a whole. No more of this micromanagement crap -- "We'll give you 7 billion this year, but you've got to use solid rocket boosters made in the congressional district from Utah. Next term, we're going to cut your budget to make cheap points with the teabaggers."
I just heard the sad news on the radio, the United States manned space program was found dead on it's runway in Cape Canaveral this morning. Foul play is suspected.
I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss it -- even if they didn't enjoy it's work, there's no denying it's contributions to the advancement the distribution of federal pork. Truly an American icon.