Some white males are angry white racists, and some are not. I wasn't saying are, to the contrary, most arn't.
What I was saying is, it doesn't take many of them to tip the election. A few hundred thousand votes in the right place could have made the difference. There are at last a few hundred thousand angry white racist males in states like Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina (especially North Carolina).
Remove the angry white racist males and Trump wouldn't have had the numbers to win. Racists tipped the fine balance in this election.
When physics couldn't explain what existed beyond earth they invented ether. When physics couldn't explain the expansion of the universe they invented dark-matter.
Same idea and will probably be proved equally laughable one day once we have a better understanding of the universe; but that's science, you come up with a theory until you gain a better understanding and build upon it.
No one cares any more, just like no one cared that Obama was black.
I live in a predominantly black neighborhood. When Obama was running for president I had a 3hr wait at the polling station the first time, 2hrs the second time.
Voting yesterday: no wait. None. I walked in to an empty polling booth, cast my vote and left.
Black people cared that Obama was black and turned out in record numbers. White people by-and-large didn't care what colour he was. No matter what they say though, a lot of people voted for Obama, in part, because he was black. (they may have liked his message to, but race was a factor for many in the minority community).
Yesterday was almost a backlash, a lot of angry white uneducated voters, and angry older voters from an age when racism was acceptable turned out en masse to vote for the guy who wants to make America white again.
Hillary lost the election in part because Obama was black. It's not the only reason, she's also a bitch and people are angry at the current establishment and her track record; however, it is partially a reason.
The popular vote difference was only 0.2%, and even though he had a decent size lead in electoral college, many of the states he won were by very small numbers. Maybe not all Trump supporters were angry racist white men. It is very easy to believe that at least 0.2% of the electorate is angry white racist men though- and that's all the difference that there was in the end.
It's impossible to know what Trump will mean for R&D. He never actually said what his policies were on such things. He was vague about his policy on most things whilst getting elected. Perhaps it is strategic (if no one knows what you want to do, they can't vote against you for it)- or perhaps he hasn't really thought it through himself. I think he wanted to get elected to have the power more than to push any particular political agenda.
What we do know is that he is a climate change denier. We know he's not a big fan of NASA either. So climatology and space sciences will probably take a big hit. We also know that he wants to fund some pretty large projects, such as building a wall on the border, putting boots on the ground against ISIS, giving tax major breaks to the very wealthy.
Tariffs will result in lower trade, which in turn will result in less money for the government, so in order to get the budget in responsible territory, he'll need to cut costs somewhere. No one can predict where, but it stands to reason, public research grants might be where he retrieves money to offset the increase in spending (and lack of income) elsewhere.
Well, just think, had God created the world in 10 days (resting on days 5, 9, and 10) he might have had more sense than to create the cockroach and the mosquito.
Exactly. I think a right to privacy is paramount; however, kids need to be watched. Just like they haven't gained many rights and privileges afforded to adults, they also haven't yet earned to right to privacy.
Protectors of children, be it parent, or teacher need to be monitoring the children whilst under their care.
Because when clocks go back an hour the same "hour" happens twice.
If you're arranging things chronologically and it's on the day the clocks go back an hour, your events will be out of order, and also you won't really know what things happened in which hour.
Or, if you have multiple offices in multiple time zones and try to merge data you could have problems if people aren't watching out for time zones. UTC for coding should be standard practice. Display it in local time but store it in UTC.
IMO, we should get rid of standard time. Why? Nearly everybody is awake at sunset, but not so with sunrise. As a corollary, in most places below the Mason-Dixon line, this gives you at least an hour of daylight once you get home from work to spend doing things outside with family. Yeah, I get this doesn't help when you're up north.
No, we should do away with daylight savings time and just offset when we go to work by an hour. We have artificially moved our timezone by being off by an hour by 3/4 of the year.
Noon has a significant meaning. It's when the sun is at it's peak. We should stick to measurements having meanings rather than arbitrary ones.
It is stupid (literally: stupid) to change the clocks twice each year. Let's just change the time zones and be done with it.
Not to mention all the extra costs this has on companies all over the country. Smart companies use Universal Time (as should everyone), but lots of companies that run 24/7 like hospitals as one example, have a bunch of extra work that is involved when the clocks change, I know of one that has to do everything on paper for an hour and enter in the data afterwards manually.
Or splitting up common real-world measurements of land, livestock, produce, beer, food, commodities, etc.
See, that's easier with metric measures.
How do you split a liter 8 ways?
That's simple. 125mL.
What about a gallon?
I have no idea. I'd have to remember- I think 4 quarts in a gallon. Either 2 or 4 pints in a quart- I'd have to look it up. Either way, it takes 2 calculations instead of one. Or memorizing a whole bunch of conversion factors. So either a pint or two pints...
I'm sure if you were born before 1970 and still use imperial a lot it's easier- but more calculations means more room for error and inefficiency.
What's 1/12th of a kilometer? What about 1/12th of a mile?
That's a rather random division 83.3 meters. Have no clue with miles- I would just say "1/12th of a mile," I'd have to look up how many yards are in a mile and hope that it is a multiple of 12. This raises the point though that- you can divide any number by a decimal based system. You can't for imperial.
Or discriminating typical temperature changes where you live. (Use Kelvins or STFU.)
The imperial system is simply superior for everyday life.
By your own examples you have proven that they're not superior. There is a lot more confusion. A lot more ambiguity. A lot more calculations (hence opportunity for error).
I'm sure I could convert mL to L a lot quicker than you could convert oz to Gallons.
Bonus Tip: 1 Pint weighs 1 Pound since 1 (fluid) Ounce of water weighs 1 Ounce.
Your explanation just proves the superiority of the metric system. You don't need to do three calculations to convert between say "mL" to "L" it's obvious. If you want to convert cups to gallons, you either have to do 3 separate calculations OR memorise a whole bunch of conversions. How many cups in a pint. How many cups in a quart. How many cups in a gallon.
As for how many cups in a gallon? I would have to do the maths or look it up. Even with your "conversion chart" above. Looks simple maths, but I haven't bothered to calculate it yet.
As for a pint (of water) weighing a pound. It approximately weighs a pound, it's not exactly a pound, and that's another problem. It's not exact.
Now try calculating the number of cups in 1756.4598 gallons. It's doable with some simple arithmetic. However calculating the number of ml in 1756.4598 litres is easy- you just move the decimal place. Simplicity. Much more efficient.
So do we speed up rotation of the earth, or move it further away from the sun (to get 100 days to the quarter) Metric time isn't as easy as length and mass.
While 365 d/y is fixed, but everything else can be changed.
100 second, 100 minute and 10 hours a day could be easily done. In fact, the french already tried to adopt decimal time : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You could also have a 10 day week (2 day weekend and a midweek day off). Oneday, Twoday, Threeday, Fourday, Fiveday, Sixday, Sevenday, Eightday, Nineday, Tenday
Expect a restaurant chain to be called "Thank God It's Eightday"
A month would be one tenth of a year. (alternating between 36 days and 37 days. On leap years obviously you'd get an extra month with 37 days in it).
Keep the month names we have now just remove February (February sucks) and July (July to similar in structure to June).
I've worked with a number of developers from India. Some were outsourced programmers living in India, some were programmers who moved to live in the US.
With the exception of one developer who had moved to the US, and was probably the most talented programmer I have ever encountered, I would say the average quality of programmer from India was far lower. Especially the outsourced programmers. I'm not sure if it's a language thing (even though they spoke fluent English for the most part) - but they wouldn't seem to really grasp the problem. You had to spell out what they needed to do- and the spelling out took more time than if you just hired a domestic to work on the problem.
I'm not sure if it is a cultural thing or a schooling thing, but the lack of flexible thought in programming was always the deal breaker. Paying more and hiring domestic employees seem to work better for programming. They may cost more per hour but you're more likely to get the job done right the first time and don't have to hold their hands through every step.
It's terrible everywhere, but one kinda expects censorship in everything China. Not saying China censorship is more OK than American censorship just more expected.
Which is why he's become friends with Russia in recent months. Russia doesn't care if you're a dictator, most of their allies are. Russia however would LOVE to turn a NATO member away from NATO.
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Some white males are angry white racists, and some are not. I wasn't saying are, to the contrary, most arn't.
What I was saying is, it doesn't take many of them to tip the election. A few hundred thousand votes in the right place could have made the difference. There are at last a few hundred thousand angry white racist males in states like Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina (especially North Carolina).
Remove the angry white racist males and Trump wouldn't have had the numbers to win. Racists tipped the fine balance in this election.
Point your telescopes at DC.
When physics couldn't explain what existed beyond earth they invented ether. When physics couldn't explain the expansion of the universe they invented dark-matter.
Same idea and will probably be proved equally laughable one day once we have a better understanding of the universe; but that's science, you come up with a theory until you gain a better understanding and build upon it.
No one cares any more, just like no one cared that Obama was black.
I live in a predominantly black neighborhood. When Obama was running for president I had a 3hr wait at the polling station the first time, 2hrs the second time.
Voting yesterday: no wait. None. I walked in to an empty polling booth, cast my vote and left.
Black people cared that Obama was black and turned out in record numbers. White people by-and-large didn't care what colour he was. No matter what they say though, a lot of people voted for Obama, in part, because he was black. (they may have liked his message to, but race was a factor for many in the minority community).
Yesterday was almost a backlash, a lot of angry white uneducated voters, and angry older voters from an age when racism was acceptable turned out en masse to vote for the guy who wants to make America white again.
Hillary lost the election in part because Obama was black. It's not the only reason, she's also a bitch and people are angry at the current establishment and her track record; however, it is partially a reason.
The popular vote difference was only 0.2%, and even though he had a decent size lead in electoral college, many of the states he won were by very small numbers. Maybe not all Trump supporters were angry racist white men. It is very easy to believe that at least 0.2% of the electorate is angry white racist men though- and that's all the difference that there was in the end.
When Trump said the election was rigged, that was the only time he told the truth
Four years from now, we're all going to be living in the rubble and cooking squirrels over oil barrels.
So, no different to how the average Trump voter already lives.
It's impossible to know what Trump will mean for R&D. He never actually said what his policies were on such things. He was vague about his policy on most things whilst getting elected. Perhaps it is strategic (if no one knows what you want to do, they can't vote against you for it)- or perhaps he hasn't really thought it through himself. I think he wanted to get elected to have the power more than to push any particular political agenda.
What we do know is that he is a climate change denier. We know he's not a big fan of NASA either. So climatology and space sciences will probably take a big hit. We also know that he wants to fund some pretty large projects, such as building a wall on the border, putting boots on the ground against ISIS, giving tax major breaks to the very wealthy.
Tariffs will result in lower trade, which in turn will result in less money for the government, so in order to get the budget in responsible territory, he'll need to cut costs somewhere. No one can predict where, but it stands to reason, public research grants might be where he retrieves money to offset the increase in spending (and lack of income) elsewhere.
Well, just think, had God created the world in 10 days (resting on days 5, 9, and 10) he might have had more sense than to create the cockroach and the mosquito.
Eventually the concept of money will be superseded by a new method of acquiring items people want. I propose we call the new exchange medium "sex".
I can't wait for the next period of rampant inflation.
Exactly. I think a right to privacy is paramount; however, kids need to be watched. Just like they haven't gained many rights and privileges afforded to adults, they also haven't yet earned to right to privacy.
Protectors of children, be it parent, or teacher need to be monitoring the children whilst under their care.
I really don't want any more babies. I want to get rid of one or two.
And you want to mess with the way they tell time?!?!?!
That's a bigger problem in the US where you use imperial measurements. Elsewhere in the world this is a concept understood.
Metric measurements lead to people driving better. Non Americans never nominate Trump either.
Because when clocks go back an hour the same "hour" happens twice.
If you're arranging things chronologically and it's on the day the clocks go back an hour, your events will be out of order, and also you won't really know what things happened in which hour.
Or, if you have multiple offices in multiple time zones and try to merge data you could have problems if people aren't watching out for time zones. UTC for coding should be standard practice. Display it in local time but store it in UTC.
That would only be slightly confusing for about 2 weeks. After that people would get quite used to going to work at 7pm and getting off work at 4am
IMO, we should get rid of standard time. Why? Nearly everybody is awake at sunset, but not so with sunrise. As a corollary, in most places below the Mason-Dixon line, this gives you at least an hour of daylight once you get home from work to spend doing things outside with family. Yeah, I get this doesn't help when you're up north.
No, we should do away with daylight savings time and just offset when we go to work by an hour. We have artificially moved our timezone by being off by an hour by 3/4 of the year.
Noon has a significant meaning. It's when the sun is at it's peak. We should stick to measurements having meanings rather than arbitrary ones.
It is stupid (literally: stupid) to change the clocks twice each year. Let's just change the time zones and be done with it.
Not to mention all the extra costs this has on companies all over the country. Smart companies use Universal Time (as should everyone), but lots of companies that run 24/7 like hospitals as one example, have a bunch of extra work that is involved when the clocks change, I know of one that has to do everything on paper for an hour and enter in the data afterwards manually.
Or splitting up common real-world measurements of land, livestock, produce, beer, food, commodities, etc.
See, that's easier with metric measures.
How do you split a liter 8 ways?
That's simple. 125mL.
What about a gallon?
I have no idea. I'd have to remember- I think 4 quarts in a gallon. Either 2 or 4 pints in a quart- I'd have to look it up. Either way, it takes 2 calculations instead of one. Or memorizing a whole bunch of conversion factors. So either a pint or two pints...
I'm sure if you were born before 1970 and still use imperial a lot it's easier- but more calculations means more room for error and inefficiency.
What's 1/12th of a kilometer? What about 1/12th of a mile?
That's a rather random division 83.3 meters. Have no clue with miles- I would just say "1/12th of a mile," I'd have to look up how many yards are in a mile and hope that it is a multiple of 12. This raises the point though that- you can divide any number by a decimal based system. You can't for imperial.
Or discriminating typical temperature changes where you live. (Use Kelvins or STFU.)
The imperial system is simply superior for everyday life.
By your own examples you have proven that they're not superior. There is a lot more confusion. A lot more ambiguity. A lot more calculations (hence opportunity for error).
I'm sure I could convert mL to L a lot quicker than you could convert oz to Gallons.
probably no one here knows how many cups are in a gallon without looking it up
What is the "here" you're referring to? A school for the retarded?
2 Cups = 1 Pint
2 Pints = 1 Quart
4 Quarts = 1 Gallon
Bonus Tip: 1 Pint weighs 1 Pound since 1 (fluid) Ounce of water weighs 1 Ounce.
Your explanation just proves the superiority of the metric system. You don't need to do three calculations to convert between say "mL" to "L" it's obvious. If you want to convert cups to gallons, you either have to do 3 separate calculations OR memorise a whole bunch of conversions. How many cups in a pint. How many cups in a quart. How many cups in a gallon.
As for how many cups in a gallon? I would have to do the maths or look it up. Even with your "conversion chart" above. Looks simple maths, but I haven't bothered to calculate it yet.
As for a pint (of water) weighing a pound. It approximately weighs a pound, it's not exactly a pound, and that's another problem. It's not exact.
Now try calculating the number of cups in 1756.4598 gallons. It's doable with some simple arithmetic. However calculating the number of ml in 1756.4598 litres is easy- you just move the decimal place. Simplicity. Much more efficient.
"No, lets start with metric measurements."
So do we speed up rotation of the earth, or move it further away from the sun
(to get 100 days to the quarter)
Metric time isn't as easy as length and mass.
While 365 d/y is fixed, but everything else can be changed.
100 second, 100 minute and 10 hours a day could be easily done. In fact, the french already tried to adopt decimal time : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You could also have a 10 day week (2 day weekend and a midweek day off).
Oneday, Twoday, Threeday, Fourday, Fiveday, Sixday, Sevenday, Eightday, Nineday, Tenday
Expect a restaurant chain to be called "Thank God It's Eightday"
A month would be one tenth of a year. (alternating between 36 days and 37 days. On leap years obviously you'd get an extra month with 37 days in it).
Keep the month names we have now just remove February (February sucks) and July (July to similar in structure to June).
I've worked with a number of developers from India. Some were outsourced programmers living in India, some were programmers who moved to live in the US.
With the exception of one developer who had moved to the US, and was probably the most talented programmer I have ever encountered, I would say the average quality of programmer from India was far lower. Especially the outsourced programmers. I'm not sure if it's a language thing (even though they spoke fluent English for the most part) - but they wouldn't seem to really grasp the problem. You had to spell out what they needed to do- and the spelling out took more time than if you just hired a domestic to work on the problem.
I'm not sure if it is a cultural thing or a schooling thing, but the lack of flexible thought in programming was always the deal breaker. Paying more and hiring domestic employees seem to work better for programming. They may cost more per hour but you're more likely to get the job done right the first time and don't have to hold their hands through every step.
That 10 year old kid is more than likely our future monarch if Trump gets elected.
It's terrible everywhere, but one kinda expects censorship in everything China. Not saying China censorship is more OK than American censorship just more expected.
Which is why he's become friends with Russia in recent months. Russia doesn't care if you're a dictator, most of their allies are. Russia however would LOVE to turn a NATO member away from NATO.
Finally, the year of the Linux Cointop computers
Works great on little rat dogs.
You're Chihuahua gets muddy? Throw him in with a load of towels.