...but in what situation would the time of day on a server or cluster need to be accurate down to a microsecond? Military, I would presume...but what else?
Box rentals cost $a per month times #b boxes + $c installation cost + $d support cost. This device costs $k + $l install cost + $d support cost So for an initial proposal, $device must be less than $rental.
I also recall there are some odd accounting rules where it can be better to lease or rent equipment instead of buying it. Or maybe its the other way around. One is the purchase of an asset and you can deduct depreciation the other is an operational expense.
I think the point is that Obama pledged to stop this from happening and it hasn't.
If he was so dead set against it, why didn't he introduce a bill to outlaw it when he was a Senator? At least an Executive Order.
This is why we're so jaded about politics in America, we elect candidates who make campaign promises. Many of those promises are implementable with formal actions that will make them stick beyond their term in office, and they don't get it done.
Do "government services" include social welfare? Or are they restricted to the usual libertarian "essential services", such as army/police/firemen?
That's the point. I don't want to reduce the size of the government all across the board - I want to curtail its infringements of civil rights.
Thats the point I'm trying to make, its going to vary candidate to candidate what services would be on the chopping block.
I wish I had my notes from the last state LP convention I went to, we had the same discussion within the party. Another member and I were very strongly in favor, almost socialists, about public education and we got into it with another member that felt that public education was one of the worst things to ever exist.
The closest we came to a common ground was that we had concerns about things like standardized testing, failing public schools, and voucher options were worth exploring. In my case it was to spend the same amounts and get more out of it, in his case it was to expose the faults in the public schools and start to scale them back.
Not really - not if you ignore all other third parties.
Genuinely curious, examples? Especially from other countries.
The LP is an option. The Libertarian Party is not an anarchist movement, the LP recognizes that there is some necessary level of government services.
Radical LP candidates espouse cutting it to the bone. More moderate candidates reflect the views of the GP, these candidates do not think that cutting government to the bone is the right answer, but they do see useless programs, pork projects, earmarks, and general wastefulness and inefficiency.
Furthermore even if the LP suddenly got a majority in the legislature and control of the executive, you wouldn't be looking at government being cut by 90% overnight. There would be the long slog of horsetrading, analysis, and BSing that you see now. The difference would be that the arguments would be about where to reduce the size of government than where to increase it.
The LP is the ONLY party that consistently promises to examine government spending across the board. With the R's and D's you may see cuts in one area, but it will just be spent in another.
I think perhaps you need to reconsider what you mean when you define yourself as a conservative.
Are you "conservative" in that you don't get into other peoples business or are you "conservative" in that you want to restrict things that you find immoral or distateful?
The label of "conservative" and "liberal" are really misnomers, they both distort and fail to describe what people use the terms for.
Isn't ecommerce pretty well standardized these days?
You search for an item, you have categories and subcategories, tags, a price listing, related items, and shipping info. Why isn't there a standard RetailML API for this?
I'm interested in this, I'd plug my amplifier into the "green" socket and it turns off the cable box, cd player, dvd player, record player, tv, and antenna amplifier. All for a little more than I'd pay for a decent brand name power strip anyway.
I'm not opposed to the Intel device, other people using them can help me decide what devices to micromanage but its just not something that I can get value out of. It may also happen that, like most electronics, devices like it get cheaper and more useful.
Still going to desolder that LED offa the toaster though.
....whenever I move around the house I turn lights off, turn off radios, unplug anything with a goddamn LED on when the device is off (I'm looking at you toaster!), and firmly but politely as the other people in the house to turn things off when they aren't using it.
I'm not "green" I'm cheap!
"Green" means spending money on this monitoring device, it means buying a new car when the old one could just use a good tune up, it means feeling good but not accomplishing anything. Being cheap means that I actually have an impact on MY bottom line, I use less therefore I spend less. It accomplishes more for me and for the environment.
As a patient, how do I find a doctor that I can actually have a good working relationship with?
I had a good one growing up, saw him through high school and college. Its not practical to travel 2 hours to see him now. How do I "feel out" a doctor for the first time? Even scheduling a physical involves a time and money investment on my part.
As a doctor I assume this benefits you, a generally healthy patient who follows directions, values your opinion, and pays his bills has got to be better than a prescription shopper or a nutter.
There are lots of good reasons to have gender specific clubs at all ages: 1) At younger ages boys and girls often have different developmental needs 2) These clubs expose the genders to positive role models they can directly relate to. This is becoming especiallly important in the age of single parents, you need to have kids that grow up under positive role models of both genders. 3) Most kids learn how to interact with the opposite gender quite normally all day in the real world 4) These clubs are ultimately PRIVATE. Are you willing to sacrifice their rights for unisexing? 5) Ever heard of "man caves" or "girls night out", I don't care what age you are, males and females are different and from time to time need their space to be around their own gender.
Your intentions are good, but no matter how much we want everyone to be equal we also have to embrace and make the most of our differences or we'll be stuck in some watered down dull society that never makes omlettes because its afraid of breaking eggs.
Not quite. While the SSID's are public information, the signal strength relative to me isn't. That's something you have to be me to know or at least be standing next to me. I hardly call that public information.
It's broadcast, it's measurable by just about anyone, you don't have to be on private property or in a private building to detect it. I'd say that information is public.
So we use the last of the helium on Earth to go to the Moon and get more helium so we can go back to Earth with more helium so we can go back to the Moon. Brilliant!
I did it once for a summer job, and it wasn't fun.
Just because you didn't like working in a factory doesn't mean everyone dislikes it. I'm sure there are factory guys out there that pay to have someone do their yardwork.
Work is also not always fun. It's good to have a job you don't hate, it's great to have a job you enjoy, but even jobs you enjoy and love will not always be fun.
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...but in what situation would the time of day on a server or cluster need to be accurate down to a microsecond? Military, I would presume...but what else?
Sometimes, just sometimes, because I *can*.
Its pertinent for reasons simpler than that.
Box rentals cost $a per month times #b boxes + $c installation cost + $d support cost.
This device costs $k + $l install cost + $d support cost
So for an initial proposal, $device must be less than $rental.
I also recall there are some odd accounting rules where it can be better to lease or rent equipment instead of buying it. Or maybe its the other way around. One is the purchase of an asset and you can deduct depreciation the other is an operational expense.
You have six TV devices? How many rooms are you in at one time?
I think the point is that Obama pledged to stop this from happening and it hasn't.
If he was so dead set against it, why didn't he introduce a bill to outlaw it when he was a Senator? At least an Executive Order.
This is why we're so jaded about politics in America, we elect candidates who make campaign promises. Many of those promises are implementable with formal actions that will make them stick beyond their term in office, and they don't get it done.
Except there are only two categories of websites:
Porn
Not Porn
So you should be able to extrapolate the data you want from there.
Do "government services" include social welfare? Or are they restricted to the usual libertarian "essential services", such as army/police/firemen?
That's the point. I don't want to reduce the size of the government all across the board - I want to curtail its infringements of civil rights.
Thats the point I'm trying to make, its going to vary candidate to candidate what services would be on the chopping block.
I wish I had my notes from the last state LP convention I went to, we had the same discussion within the party. Another member and I were very strongly in favor, almost socialists, about public education and we got into it with another member that felt that public education was one of the worst things to ever exist.
The closest we came to a common ground was that we had concerns about things like standardized testing, failing public schools, and voucher options were worth exploring. In my case it was to spend the same amounts and get more out of it, in his case it was to expose the faults in the public schools and start to scale them back.
Not really - not if you ignore all other third parties.
Genuinely curious, examples? Especially from other countries.
The LP is an option. The Libertarian Party is not an anarchist movement, the LP recognizes that there is some necessary level of government services.
Radical LP candidates espouse cutting it to the bone. More moderate candidates reflect the views of the GP, these candidates do not think that cutting government to the bone is the right answer, but they do see useless programs, pork projects, earmarks, and general wastefulness and inefficiency.
Furthermore even if the LP suddenly got a majority in the legislature and control of the executive, you wouldn't be looking at government being cut by 90% overnight. There would be the long slog of horsetrading, analysis, and BSing that you see now. The difference would be that the arguments would be about where to reduce the size of government than where to increase it.
The LP is the ONLY party that consistently promises to examine government spending across the board. With the R's and D's you may see cuts in one area, but it will just be spent in another.
www.lp.org/candidates
I think perhaps you need to reconsider what you mean when you define yourself as a conservative.
Are you "conservative" in that you don't get into other peoples business or are you "conservative" in that you want to restrict things that you find immoral or distateful?
The label of "conservative" and "liberal" are really misnomers, they both distort and fail to describe what people use the terms for.
I'm not sure thats a bad thing. IBM seems to be doing OK these days.
Isn't ecommerce pretty well standardized these days?
You search for an item, you have categories and subcategories, tags, a price listing, related items, and shipping info. Why isn't there a standard RetailML API for this?
See I can get behind devices like this: http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/17/belkin-conserve-lineup-will-make-you-feel-even-worse-about-all-t/
I'm interested in this, I'd plug my amplifier into the "green" socket and it turns off the cable box, cd player, dvd player, record player, tv, and antenna amplifier. All for a little more than I'd pay for a decent brand name power strip anyway.
I'm not opposed to the Intel device, other people using them can help me decide what devices to micromanage but its just not something that I can get value out of. It may also happen that, like most electronics, devices like it get cheaper and more useful.
Still going to desolder that LED offa the toaster though.
....whenever I move around the house I turn lights off, turn off radios, unplug anything with a goddamn LED on when the device is off (I'm looking at you toaster!), and firmly but politely as the other people in the house to turn things off when they aren't using it.
I'm not "green" I'm cheap!
"Green" means spending money on this monitoring device, it means buying a new car when the old one could just use a good tune up, it means feeling good but not accomplishing anything. Being cheap means that I actually have an impact on MY bottom line, I use less therefore I spend less. It accomplishes more for me and for the environment.
As a patient, how do I find a doctor that I can actually have a good working relationship with?
I had a good one growing up, saw him through high school and college. Its not practical to travel 2 hours to see him now. How do I "feel out" a doctor for the first time? Even scheduling a physical involves a time and money investment on my part.
As a doctor I assume this benefits you, a generally healthy patient who follows directions, values your opinion, and pays his bills has got to be better than a prescription shopper or a nutter.
No I haven't missed the point.
Have you seen the movie Fight Club, where the woman character goes to the meeting for testicular cancer?
Its a bit like that.
There are lots of good reasons to have gender specific clubs at all ages:
1) At younger ages boys and girls often have different developmental needs
2) These clubs expose the genders to positive role models they can directly relate to. This is becoming especiallly important in the age of single parents, you need to have kids that grow up under positive role models of both genders.
3) Most kids learn how to interact with the opposite gender quite normally all day in the real world
4) These clubs are ultimately PRIVATE. Are you willing to sacrifice their rights for unisexing?
5) Ever heard of "man caves" or "girls night out", I don't care what age you are, males and females are different and from time to time need their space to be around their own gender.
Your intentions are good, but no matter how much we want everyone to be equal we also have to embrace and make the most of our differences or we'll be stuck in some watered down dull society that never makes omlettes because its afraid of breaking eggs.
The energy put into thinking about this would far outweigh any perceived benefits.
Indeed. All scientific research is utterly useless and wasted time unless it has immediate and forseeable tangible benefits.
It has now.
But this is a NEW way to watch those 15 year old videos! That alone makes it better.
Yea, nothing like re-living the Age of Consent Tour in HD on the iPhone.
If you broadcast ANYTHING it is not the receivers fault for listening to that transmission.
Not quite. While the SSID's are public information, the signal strength relative to me isn't. That's something you have to be me to know or at least be standing next to me. I hardly call that public information.
It's broadcast, it's measurable by just about anyone, you don't have to be on private property or in a private building to detect it. I'd say that information is public.
Thats the idea, its called "the blame game" and it cuts down on support costs.
So we use the last of the helium on Earth to go to the Moon and get more helium so we can go back to Earth with more helium so we can go back to the Moon. Brilliant!
I did it once for a summer job, and it wasn't fun.
Just because you didn't like working in a factory doesn't mean everyone dislikes it. I'm sure there are factory guys out there that pay to have someone do their yardwork.
Work is also not always fun. It's good to have a job you don't hate, it's great to have a job you enjoy, but even jobs you enjoy and love will not always be fun.
Isn't sausage usually a pork product?