Interesting that they'd suggest F-35 is "less capable" when it's able to serve the Navy and Marines, and fight true air-to-ground, where the Raptor's just a fly-boy machine.
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Yeah, way to REALLY blow away any hope for future scientific achievement coming out of America, man...
(not saying you're WRONG, just saying... yuck)
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I love the Lament, it's incredible.
I'd guess (hope?) that you don't bring this book out until / unless your child shows an interest.
But at some point you have to show them SOMETHING though, right? If you don't show them, how will they know what there is to be interested in?
So you just work for work's sake? You don't get rewarded for a good performance review? You just get a pat on the back, a "good job, keep it up" and no raise?
The idea that online software communities are somehow in any way related to government sponsored socialism is laughable at best. At worst, the guy's trying to co-opt the term and make it less scary when government DOES decide to do it to us.
Oh noes! People made money off it!! Science was "hindered"!
Please. Any hindrance is temporary (47 million years old and it's been a couple more years! Avast!!) and the fossil getting this much attention can only help the cause - money pouring into the area isn't a bad thing either unless you really like staying a poor researcher.
It might be nice from a social engineering standpoint, or even environmentally sound because you're taking old gas-guzzling, soot-spewing cars off the road, but it's most certainly NOT good economics.
I mean, why stop at this paltry incentive plan??
Why not use the US Military and fire rockets at every car currently on the road?
You'd create jobs in emergency response, clean-up, road reconstruction, military weapons development (gotta replace all those missiles!), AND the auto companies! Zero percent unemployment here we come!
You mentioned "sensible regulations" and yet this thread seems to be mainly about SOX. "sensible" and "Sarbanes-Oxley" probably should never be in the same zip code...
Oh, and industry lobbies weren't ever arguing for deregulation - just, regulation that would protect themselves vs. competition, just like always.
I agree that the gov't took exactly the wrong route with respect to the rules of business, but to call it "deregulation" is to miss the point, I think.
Part of the "problem" with the big 3 getting beat up is the number of assembly line jobs that are threatened, not the number of wonderful engineering jobs.
In places like Michigan and upstate NY, the majority of the jobs are still blue collar.
Sorry, but your post is completely ridiculous and doesn't address the GP's point in any way at all.
"If eating predominately NATURAL food, rather manmade artificial factory made stuff is twaddle, then that is your opinion only."
That's not what was claimed at all. What is claimed to be "twaddle" is that believing NATURAL (sic) food is unquestionably better for you than processed food with no scientific proof. You can't just SAY it and make it so.
"Do you really believe that the large corps that own these food factories have you good health uppermost in their minds, rather than their bottom line?"
Sorry, but that has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not "natural" food is any better for you than "processed" food. This is what's known as a non sequitur.
Your second paragraph continues as one big long non sequitur.
Costs and profit say nothing whatsoever about relative nutritional value.
Note: I "feel" better about eating natural foods. But I make no claims about the relative nutrition/health of eating thus, and I have no idea if the original "natural good, processed bad" guy has any idea what he's talking about because his post was essentially word salad.
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Interesting that they'd suggest F-35 is "less capable" when it's able to serve the Navy and Marines, and fight true air-to-ground, where the Raptor's just a fly-boy machine.
Yeah, way to REALLY blow away any hope for future scientific achievement coming out of America, man...
(not saying you're WRONG, just saying... yuck)
I love the Lament, it's incredible.
I'd guess (hope?) that you don't bring this book out until / unless your child shows an interest.
But at some point you have to show them SOMETHING though, right? If you don't show them, how will they know what there is to be interested in?
Uh, yeah, and then who will pay that cap and trade cost?
Shift the burden from taxpayers to electricity users who are... us taxpayers.
Rock the hell on, man.
If these guys weren't working on a slick-as-shit Veyron, they'd be bored to tears somewhere else. Good for them.
And good for anyone who's able to achieve fun things and make a living doing it. The idea that we all have to be "productive" for society? Fuck that.
DC is 6.5 hours away if you drive a Mustang and go down 219 through central PA. :)
Who said anything about the _state_ making the profit?
The state _pays_ for the stuff you mentioned. It's the special interests who are getting paid who like the status quo.
As Gregg Easterbrook has been known to write, it's the massive explosions of an interstellar war.
So you just work for work's sake? You don't get rewarded for a good performance review? You just get a pat on the back, a "good job, keep it up" and no raise?
Your job sucks. :-)
The problem with your plan is that it ignores the reality that increased efficiency creates increased demand, paradoxically...
Just wanted to say, nice post.
The idea that online software communities are somehow in any way related to government sponsored socialism is laughable at best. At worst, the guy's trying to co-opt the term and make it less scary when government DOES decide to do it to us.
Oh noes! People made money off it!! Science was "hindered"!
Please. Any hindrance is temporary (47 million years old and it's been a couple more years! Avast!!) and the fossil getting this much attention can only help the cause - money pouring into the area isn't a bad thing either unless you really like staying a poor researcher.
Which is strange to me: They tracked one guy for 65 days but didn't think they had probable cause enough to get a warrant to do so?
I'm surprised you remember what it was like to be a 9 year old.
Or perhaps you meant that your KID was once 9... I'm not sure. :-D
And how exactly does one decide the worth of real estate EXCEPT by asking what someone else has recently paid for something similar?
What the hell is the "actual value" of real estate??
"I bet you do"? Nonsense.
Some of us don't own a copy of Windows (nor a pirated copy).
Um, it all boils down to politics. Really.
Wait.
The planet's population "problem" is solving itself and the only thing you can do is piss on the parade by whining about social pensions??
You must be European. :)
Well that was insightful. ROFL.
I win.
It might be nice from a social engineering standpoint, or even environmentally sound because you're taking old gas-guzzling, soot-spewing cars off the road, but it's most certainly NOT good economics.
I mean, why stop at this paltry incentive plan??
Why not use the US Military and fire rockets at every car currently on the road?
You'd create jobs in emergency response, clean-up, road reconstruction, military weapons development (gotta replace all those missiles!), AND the auto companies! Zero percent unemployment here we come!
You mentioned "sensible regulations" and yet this thread seems to be mainly about SOX. "sensible" and "Sarbanes-Oxley" probably should never be in the same zip code...
Oh, and industry lobbies weren't ever arguing for deregulation - just, regulation that would protect themselves vs. competition, just like always.
I agree that the gov't took exactly the wrong route with respect to the rules of business, but to call it "deregulation" is to miss the point, I think.
Part of the "problem" with the big 3 getting beat up is the number of assembly line jobs that are threatened, not the number of wonderful engineering jobs.
In places like Michigan and upstate NY, the majority of the jobs are still blue collar.
Yeah, because corporate control of the Internet has been incredibly successful so far.
Oh wait...
Sorry, but your post is completely ridiculous and doesn't address the GP's point in any way at all.
"If eating predominately NATURAL food, rather manmade artificial factory made stuff is twaddle, then that is your opinion only."
That's not what was claimed at all. What is claimed to be "twaddle" is that believing NATURAL (sic) food is unquestionably better for you than processed food with no scientific proof. You can't just SAY it and make it so.
"Do you really believe that the large corps that own these food factories have you good health uppermost in their minds, rather than their bottom line?"
Sorry, but that has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not "natural" food is any better for you than "processed" food. This is what's known as a non sequitur.
Your second paragraph continues as one big long non sequitur.
Costs and profit say nothing whatsoever about relative nutritional value.
Note: I "feel" better about eating natural foods. But I make no claims about the relative nutrition/health of eating thus, and I have no idea if the original "natural good, processed bad" guy has any idea what he's talking about because his post was essentially word salad.
"Tons of white folks voted AGAINST him for no reason but skin color or perceived religion"
Citation or just shut up. Anecdotal evidence doesn't count.