SELECT text FROM thank_you_for_sharing_your_views_but _you_have_not_seen_the_schema_my_friend
UNION
SELECT text FROM same_goes_for_point_two__if_you_lack _the_source_code_what_then_do_you_really_know
UNION
SELECT text FROM besides_it_got_plus_five_funny_so_neener_neener_neener;
You seem to fantasize of a future where the federal government regulates in a relatively unbiased way, with power distributed amongst the 50 States United and "We the People" in charge.
Our aristocrac^Wpolitical class and their plutocratic owners will educate you otherwise.
See, I don't think there is ever a good time or place for SQL.
SELECT text FROM mild_introductory_statements WHERE id=random();
Anyone who says so has never had to use it.
SELECT text FROM statements_indicating_superior_experience WHERE id=random();
I like to compare it with JavaScript.
SELECT text FROM unrelated_tool WHERE id=random();
It's a language that is difficult to refactor, maintain, and while it's a standard, the standard is so vague that it's useless.
SELECT text FROM seemingly_valid_yet_unsubstantiated_objections WHERE id=random();
Like JavaScript, people are trying to build other languages on top of it to hide its shortcomings -- for javascript you have tools like GWT, and for SQL you have HQL, Linq, etc.
SELECT text FROM wrongheaded_causal_analysis WHERE id=same_one_as_two_queries_ago();
Not to say that there is anything wrong with relational databases, we just lack a good tool to interface with them.
SELECT text FROM reasonable_sounding_parthian_shot_to_obscure_trolling WHERE id=random();
It seems like a huge chunk of all programming is like being Gerardus Mercator.
You've got a bunch of information with one shape, but you really need it in another shape.
The code is about dealing with the embarrassment of it all.
If you've got tabular stuff, and you so very often do, the relational model is fantastic.
If you're dealing with some kind of graph, you're hating life.
People coming in complaining that their aircraft makes a poor submarine are initially amusing, but become tedious.
Oversimplifying somewhat, I think of the public sector as userspace, and the government as kernel space.
The reason OS kernels work is that the kernel/user space divide is strictly enforced.
Conversely, conflation of the two is actively killing us.
Your criticism is fair: communicating detailed ideas via/. ransom notes is absurd.
But if I wasn't laughing, I'd be doing something unspeakable.
Exit question: is passing non-existent legislation any more sober?
I'm unsure that your link refutes my general point that we need to start with Amendment 16, overhaul the system, and blow away the IRS, but I thank you for it nonetheless.
if "We the People" allow it. True, WtP have been asleep at the switch since Woodrow Wilson, but I think that these here tubey-webs are bringing about a shocking level of general consciousness.
situation in Iraq was no where close to the situation in Iran
They do share a substantial border. And there was plenty of talk of *cough*Iranian interference*cough* with Iraqi affairs, to mention nothing of Lebanon.
However, the cute Cairo corner into which BHO has painted himself means that he has to continue W's hands-off-ish policy.
Sort of a lose-lose situation for the POTUS, really.
You realise that this would limit people from moving across state lines due to the different state health insurance plans, right?
Possibly it could, but this is by no means an explicit requirement. As with an interface requirement in a modern programming language, you have the federal government set a standard, and allow the states to implement it.
Regarding mortgage underwriting, regulation of the industry is absolutely not socialism and is arguably a federal matter.
I can buy off that the Veterans Administration might sweeten the deal for military servicemembers.
The attendant moral hazard of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, irrespective of whether you want to slap the 'S' word on it, is an obvious 10th Amendment violation. Why you wouldn't want the states to figure things out for themselves, and have the federal government acting as a check on abuses escapes me.
Centralization buys economies of scale, at the expense of moral hazard.
Possibly there is an apples/oranges comparison at work here.
The US has close to 10 times the population of Canada. California alone has more people than Canada.
Nothing in my argument precludes a Canada-style system in any one of our 57 states. Citizens should have the right to vote as they see fit. Just ask Mitt Romney, and he'll tout his Massachusetts work.
The entire sub-prime crisis ought to have been precluded a priori by a simple reading of Amendment 10. You don't need chemotherapy to contain a cancer driven by a carcinogen you don't ingest. The US has plenty of room for socialism. I'm arguing that implementing it federally must be opposed.
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As long as you've a dupe who will buy those snowcats at a high price, what is the problem?
No, and they were particularly not fired for threatening to buy !MS, sot that MS would come back with better pricing.
Given a bonus, they were.
Wait...all that information is ultimately for human consumption?
SELECT text FROM thank_you_for_sharing_your_views_but _you_have_not_seen_the_schema_my_friend
UNION
SELECT text FROM same_goes_for_point_two__if_you_lack _the_source_code_what_then_do_you_really_know
UNION
SELECT text FROM besides_it_got_plus_five_funny_so_neener_neener_neener;
You seem to fantasize of a future where the federal government regulates in a relatively unbiased way, with power distributed amongst the 50 States United and "We the People" in charge.
Our aristocrac^Wpolitical class and their plutocratic owners will educate you otherwise.
See, I don't think there is ever a good time or place for SQL.
SELECT text FROM mild_introductory_statements WHERE id=random();
Anyone who says so has never had to use it.
SELECT text FROM statements_indicating_superior_experience WHERE id=random();
I like to compare it with JavaScript.
SELECT text FROM unrelated_tool WHERE id=random();
It's a language that is difficult to refactor, maintain, and while it's a standard, the standard is so vague that it's useless.
SELECT text FROM seemingly_valid_yet_unsubstantiated_objections WHERE id=random();
Like JavaScript, people are trying to build other languages on top of it to hide its shortcomings -- for javascript you have tools like GWT, and for SQL you have HQL, Linq, etc.
SELECT text FROM wrongheaded_causal_analysis WHERE id=same_one_as_two_queries_ago();
Not to say that there is anything wrong with relational databases, we just lack a good tool to interface with them.
SELECT text FROM reasonable_sounding_parthian_shot_to_obscure_trolling WHERE id=random();
It seems like a huge chunk of all programming is like being Gerardus Mercator.
You've got a bunch of information with one shape, but you really need it in another shape.
The code is about dealing with the embarrassment of it all.
If you've got tabular stuff, and you so very often do, the relational model is fantastic.
If you're dealing with some kind of graph, you're hating life.
People coming in complaining that their aircraft makes a poor submarine are initially amusing, but become tedious.
I just want the fastest one.
I, for one, love to hand-optimize loops in Assembly. No, I don't. I read Hyde and said, "Yeah, I'll wait until after the YAGNI moment passes".
"Green Dam",
Total sham.
Real security:
Green eggs and ham.
Burma Shave
Oversimplifying somewhat, I think of the public sector as userspace, and the government as kernel space. /. ransom notes is absurd.
The reason OS kernels work is that the kernel/user space divide is strictly enforced.
Conversely, conflation of the two is actively killing us.
Your criticism is fair: communicating detailed ideas via
But if I wasn't laughing, I'd be doing something unspeakable.
Exit question: is passing non-existent legislation any more sober?
Wow, that beats "vegan haggis" for oxymoron of the day.
Something about being generally savvy makes it harder for ideas like labor unions and collectivism to take root.
HuffPo felt it needed something to boost its credibility~
There you go with that conservative history claptrap.
You really need to get on board with Teh Holy Narrative, or things will become hard for you.
Sort of a shame the Administration can't follow laws sponsored by the POTUS when he was a mere Senator.
More like the both are wholly p0wned subsidiaries of the plutocrats.
"You can leave your hat on."
What about us Baptists? If the Roman Catholics can have a browser...
Oh, I forgot: "The GUI is a factory for idols, and that's why we have lynx."
I'm unsure that your link refutes my general point that we need to start with Amendment 16, overhaul the system, and blow away the IRS, but I thank you for it nonetheless.
interstate commerce clause
if "We the People" allow it. True, WtP have been asleep at the switch since Woodrow Wilson, but I think that these here tubey-webs are bringing about a shocking level of general consciousness.
situation in Iraq was no where close to the situation in Iran
They do share a substantial border. And there was plenty of talk of *cough*Iranian interference*cough* with Iraqi affairs, to mention nothing of Lebanon.
However, the cute Cairo corner into which BHO has painted himself means that he has to continue W's hands-off-ish policy.
Sort of a lose-lose situation for the POTUS, really.
best written...well thought out...pleasure to read...
I submit that you've already answered yourself on this point.
You realise that this would limit people from moving across state lines due to the different state health insurance plans, right?
Possibly it could, but this is by no means an explicit requirement. As with an interface requirement in a modern programming language, you have the federal government set a standard, and allow the states to implement it.
Regarding mortgage underwriting, regulation of the industry is absolutely not socialism and is arguably a federal matter.
I can buy off that the Veterans Administration might sweeten the deal for military servicemembers.
The attendant moral hazard of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, irrespective of whether you want to slap the 'S' word on it, is an obvious 10th Amendment violation. Why you wouldn't want the states to figure things out for themselves, and have the federal government acting as a check on abuses escapes me.
Centralization buys economies of scale, at the expense of moral hazard.
Possibly there is an apples/oranges comparison at work here.
The US has close to 10 times the population of Canada. California alone has more people than Canada.
Nothing in my argument precludes a Canada-style system in any one of our 57 states. Citizens should have the right to vote as they see fit. Just ask Mitt Romney, and he'll tout his Massachusetts work.
The entire sub-prime crisis ought to have been precluded a priori by a simple reading of Amendment 10. You don't need chemotherapy to contain a cancer driven by a carcinogen you don't ingest.
The US has plenty of room for socialism. I'm arguing that implementing it federally must be opposed.
Stupid? Trite? You may not agree with it, but it's a substantive, historically grounded opinion.