Democrats/Lefties have a long tradition of supporting more and stricter gun restrictions and outright bans, even going back to the 1920s. And I remember the debates that occured during the AWB's voting, and republicans were primarily against it and dems primarily for it. There was no arbitrary decision by the NRA to support just one party; they have long tended to support Republicans (though in reality they base their support on a canidates actual opinion on guns, leading them to support Democrats who favor the 2nd amendment and not support Reps that don't).
Furthermore, the AWB was merely one part of the massive Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, one of the biggest crime laws and expansions of federal law enforcement powers ever created. The AWB was just one part of that bill, a bill that was created in reaction to several high profile violent crimes (ie, emotional knee jerk reaction law, ala the PARTRIO act, and several others....stop making decisions in the heat of the moment people!!!), such as the waco disaster.
And the ACLU is hardly an unbiased organization. I heartily support and applaud their many attempts to preserve civil liberties, even when unpopular (the nazi's marching in the chicago suburb), due to the consequences of letting even,a ndone go undefended. But the ACLU has never supported the 2nd amendment, and further, does not even consider the 2nd amendment a civil liberty issue ( http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice_prisoners-rights_drug-law-reform_immigrants-rights/second-amendment ). So the ACLU are hardly the all protective organization of our rights that you think they are.
no one ever said IQ was a single factor. hell the damn thing stands for Intelligence Quotient.
ie, a mathmatical relationship between multiple factors that can be cross connected mathmatically to yield a single number. Two people with an IQ of 140...one has great memory that compensates for lack in other parts of the derivation of the IQ number, the other has good problem solving skills that does the compensating.
You make it sound like the Reagan years and policies were bad.
The economy grew, faster and bigger than it did before and after his term The poverty level and the population in it shrunk. The avg family income grew.
"Interest rates, inflation, and unemployment fell faster under Reagan than they did immediately before or after his presidency. The only economic variable that was worse in the Reagan period than in both the pre- and post-Reagan years was the savings rate, which fell rapidly in the 1980s."
Basically nothing you said had anything to do with the 80's.
Someone has to build the space ship. Is the rich guy gonna do that? Someone has to design it. Is the rich guy gonna do that? Someone has to fly it. Is the rich guy gonna do that? Someone has to maintain it. Is the rich guy gonna do that? Someone has to launch it. Is the rich guy gonna do that?
I guess all those guys work for free though, right?
Because there are absolutely no one that plays on LANs. Oh wait... or Because no one has hacked together a keyboard+mouse controller for game consoles. Ever. Oh wait: http://www.penguinunited.com/ and http://www.mayflash.com/
Yes, that 0.016 second of difference betwen 30 and 60 fps matters. Yup. that's some super high latency there. It really throws off the shots. I mean there I was firing the gun, waiting that extra 0.016 of a second to see where the impact landed before firing another shot, repeating this action a few hundred times per second....
Oh and a no true scotsman fallacy too, in the form of a personal opinion that no recent game is a -REAL- game but really just a long movie.
You run the accounts payable department as a huge mega corp. You have thousands of customers and contractors to shuffle money between.
You know that Bob from Tiny Co already delivers quality product on time and on budget. You know that Bob from Tiny Co has two kids from the Xmas cards he sends you every year thanking you for your business. You even met and had lunch one time at a industry conference, and got along.
You also know Bill from Small Co, and that his company delivers an ok product. They have budget problems and QA is shoddy. You know that Bill calls you angrily over the smallest thing. You also met Bill at that conference. He was arrogant and smelly.
Who gets their accounts pushed to the head of the line so they're settled first, and fastest, every time? Bob? Or Bill?
reminds me of people who get so into crypto that all they see is the math, to where the math is all that matters, and lose sight of its ultimate purpose: keeping something hidden from someone else.
Um...you dont need Line of Sight. It helps, but its not required. HAM operators have been talking around the globe for years. I pick up radio stations (AM and FM) from Atlanta in Macon, and from Tulsa in OKC regularly, and I'm definitely over the horizon in both cases, no matter how tall those broadcast antenna are.
The key part of the transmitter is power, and it's the easiest way to extend the range. But the reciever matters too: the key step in a radio is the quality and design of the circuitry. My KIA car radio can't pick up those stations I just mentioned, but my Santa Fe's radio can. Using the right amps and filters you'd be surprised what you can do.
Being DARPA, using advanced materials and advanced super high quality components in the reciever should be a no brainer.
This technology brought to you by DARPA. The people who scoff at the word impossible. Enahncing your world one crazy impossible bullshit idea at a time.
They had to find a munipality that would allow it and wouldnt have the local telco sue them to stop them like happened in a Carolina town when the LOCAL RESIDENTS tried to build/create their own fiber ISP cause the cable company's ISP sucked so bad.
a congressman who flatly and publicly calls all her colleagues idiots will soon find herself on no committees and with no support at anything she tries to do. Effectively rendering herself powerless and unable to do anything.
That's why the diplomatic phrasing. One of those word games politicians play.
addendum: and if you dont think there's politics (not red/blue, but ass kissing, researching whats "hip/popular", etc) involved in getting funding for research, you're horribly deluded.
in science all theories are supposed to have a null value for validity until proven valid/invalid. in pure science if a scientist presents a conflicting point of view or theory, based on whatever evidence, it should be investigated to determine its validity.
the guy was refering to the fact that anyone who thinks they have a counter argument to climate change has much trouble getting funding and get shutdown, without any determination of validity, because climate change has very much become a politicized topic, and it is a dogma of sorts in the world outside actual climate research.
the scientists are all too willing to "do science" and perform research, even into counter arguments, because it all advances knowledge on the subject. its the funders, the politicians, the people obliquely involved, the general public, and by your reposnse you yourself too, that have fallen into the dogma trap, and cut things off that dont agree with their already preconceived notions.
and another automatic +5 insightful for bashing libertarians with a very broad, biased and wholly innaccurate brush. welcome to the club. Here's your bucket to hold the manure spewing from your face hole.
Only as long as the electro-psychological potentials are in proper working order. Don't forget what happened to Robot LVX-1.
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way i see it when you went and built a geocities site, you put something of yourself into it. the whole thing is a reflection of you.
when you make a facebook page you get to share the disjointed pieces of yourself that facebook allows you to in a sterile boring just like everyone else format, while they mine you for money, i mean data.
I dont work for the feeling of earning what I have. I work for money. Because I need money. To buy things like clothes, food, pay rent. If I didnt I would have to spend all my time creating all those things myself.
I dont know who taught you that rubbish, but he needs slapped. I dont know if you noticed or not, but subsistance living is hard, and sucks by and large compared to modern society.
Depending on the machine you can replace between 1 and 20 (lets say) workers. So those 1 to 20 people at Company A are now without job. They now have to find new employment in some fashion, which means learning a new job, something that not everyone is able (age, competency) or willing to do (lazy, screw them). That new job could be the caretaker for the new machines. Either way, Company A now has fewer workers. Another option for the workers is to go work for Company B, the maker of the machines. They need salesmen, engineers, and factory workers, sure. And some of the workers can go there.
But it's still generally a sloping plot trending to smaller numbers.
If there are 20 displaced workers in one place from the new technology, not all 20 of them will find new work revolving around the new tech. And it's a viscious or self-enforcing cycle. Sometimes the tech is made because there arent enough workers or the workers are limited in capability (cant work 24 hours a day, etc). Sometimes the tech works in place with workers, symbiotically, sometimes it totally replaces them.
It's not a given that technology has no effect on unemployment, but it's not a given that it does either. It depends on the industry, on the tech, and on the workers.
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That's not true at all.
Democrats/Lefties have a long tradition of supporting more and stricter gun restrictions and outright bans, even going back to the 1920s. And I remember the debates that occured during the AWB's voting, and republicans were primarily against it and dems primarily for it. There was no arbitrary decision by the NRA to support just one party; they have long tended to support Republicans (though in reality they base their support on a canidates actual opinion on guns, leading them to support Democrats who favor the 2nd amendment and not support Reps that don't).
And you make it sound like they all got together and all passed the AWB. They didnt.
Senate: 61-38 ( http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=2&vote=00295 )
House: 235-195 ( http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1994/roll416.xml )
Furthermore, the AWB was merely one part of the massive Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, one of the biggest crime laws and expansions of federal law enforcement powers ever created. The AWB was just one part of that bill, a bill that was created in reaction to several high profile violent crimes (ie, emotional knee jerk reaction law, ala the PARTRIO act, and several others....stop making decisions in the heat of the moment people!!!), such as the waco disaster.
And the ACLU is hardly an unbiased organization. I heartily support and applaud their many attempts to preserve civil liberties, even when unpopular (the nazi's marching in the chicago suburb), due to the consequences of letting even,a ndone go undefended. But the ACLU has never supported the 2nd amendment, and further, does not even consider the 2nd amendment a civil liberty issue ( http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice_prisoners-rights_drug-law-reform_immigrants-rights/second-amendment ). So the ACLU are hardly the all protective organization of our rights that you think they are.
no one ever said IQ was a single factor.
hell the damn thing stands for Intelligence Quotient.
ie, a mathmatical relationship between multiple factors that can be cross connected mathmatically to yield a single number. Two people with an IQ of 140...one has great memory that compensates for lack in other parts of the derivation of the IQ number, the other has good problem solving skills that does the compensating.
IQ is more about the capacity to do something. whether you actually do or not, has nothing to do with it.
You make it sound like the Reagan years and policies were bad.
The economy grew, faster and bigger than it did before and after his term
The poverty level and the population in it shrunk.
The avg family income grew.
"Interest rates, inflation, and unemployment fell faster under Reagan than they did immediately before or after his presidency. The only economic variable that was worse in the Reagan period than in both the pre- and post-Reagan years was the savings rate, which fell rapidly in the 1980s."
Basically nothing you said had anything to do with the 80's.
Someone has to build the space ship. Is the rich guy gonna do that?
Someone has to design it. Is the rich guy gonna do that?
Someone has to fly it. Is the rich guy gonna do that?
Someone has to maintain it. Is the rich guy gonna do that?
Someone has to launch it. Is the rich guy gonna do that?
I guess all those guys work for free though, right?
Because there are absolutely no one that plays on LANs.
Oh wait...
or
Because no one has hacked together a keyboard+mouse controller for game consoles. Ever.
Oh wait: http://www.penguinunited.com/ and http://www.mayflash.com/
Yes, that 0.016 second of difference betwen 30 and 60 fps matters. Yup. that's some super high latency there. It really throws off the shots.
I mean there I was firing the gun, waiting that extra 0.016 of a second to see where the impact landed before firing another shot, repeating this action a few hundred times per second....
Oh and a no true scotsman fallacy too, in the form of a personal opinion that no recent game is a -REAL- game but really just a long movie.
Bravo.
not a free market.
You run the accounts payable department as a huge mega corp.
You have thousands of customers and contractors to shuffle money between.
You know that Bob from Tiny Co already delivers quality product on time and on budget.
You know that Bob from Tiny Co has two kids from the Xmas cards he sends you every year thanking you for your business.
You even met and had lunch one time at a industry conference, and got along.
You also know Bill from Small Co, and that his company delivers an ok product. They have budget problems and QA is shoddy.
You know that Bill calls you angrily over the smallest thing.
You also met Bill at that conference. He was arrogant and smelly.
Who gets their accounts pushed to the head of the line so they're settled first, and fastest, every time? Bob? Or Bill?
because presumably in his source book there's only one accepted meaning for any given acronym
reminds me of people who get so into crypto that all they see is the math, to where the math is all that matters, and lose sight of its ultimate purpose: keeping something hidden from someone else.
Um...you dont need Line of Sight. It helps, but its not required.
HAM operators have been talking around the globe for years.
I pick up radio stations (AM and FM) from Atlanta in Macon, and from Tulsa in OKC regularly, and I'm definitely over the horizon in both cases, no matter how tall those broadcast antenna are.
The key part of the transmitter is power, and it's the easiest way to extend the range.
But the reciever matters too: the key step in a radio is the quality and design of the circuitry. My KIA car radio can't pick up those stations I just mentioned, but my Santa Fe's radio can. Using the right amps and filters you'd be surprised what you can do.
Being DARPA, using advanced materials and advanced super high quality components in the reciever should be a no brainer.
Seriously.
Mod up.
This technology brought to you by DARPA.
The people who scoff at the word impossible.
Enahncing your world one crazy impossible bullshit idea at a time.
New syfy movie...Lionfish
A researcher working with Zebrafish gave them hands.
He expanded his research to Lionfish...
Now he's awakened an insatiable hunger...
And they're no longer stuck in the fishbowl!
They had to find a munipality that would allow it and wouldnt have the local telco sue them to stop them like happened in a Carolina town when the LOCAL RESIDENTS tried to build/create their own fiber ISP cause the cable company's ISP sucked so bad.
His was a joke.
Her's wasn't:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee#Historical_errors
a congressman who flatly and publicly calls all her colleagues idiots will soon find herself on no committees and with no support at anything she tries to do. Effectively rendering herself powerless and unable to do anything.
That's why the diplomatic phrasing.
One of those word games politicians play.
addendum: and if you dont think there's politics (not red/blue, but ass kissing, researching whats "hip/popular", etc) involved in getting funding for research, you're horribly deluded.
in science all theories are supposed to have a null value for validity until proven valid/invalid.
in pure science if a scientist presents a conflicting point of view or theory, based on whatever evidence, it should be investigated to determine its validity.
the guy was refering to the fact that anyone who thinks they have a counter argument to climate change has much trouble getting funding and get shutdown, without any determination of validity, because climate change has very much become a politicized topic, and it is a dogma of sorts in the world outside actual climate research.
the scientists are all too willing to "do science" and perform research, even into counter arguments, because it all advances knowledge on the subject.
its the funders, the politicians, the people obliquely involved, the general public, and by your reposnse you yourself too, that have fallen into the dogma trap, and cut things off that dont agree with their already preconceived notions.
and another automatic +5 insightful for bashing libertarians with a very broad, biased and wholly innaccurate brush.
welcome to the club. Here's your bucket to hold the manure spewing from your face hole.
Only as long as the electro-psychological potentials are in proper working order.
Don't forget what happened to Robot LVX-1.
way i see it when you went and built a geocities site, you put something of yourself into it. the whole thing is a reflection of you.
when you make a facebook page you get to share the disjointed pieces of yourself that facebook allows you to in a sterile boring just like everyone else format, while they mine you for money, i mean data.
that's the difference.
I dont work for the feeling of earning what I have.
I work for money. Because I need money. To buy things like clothes, food, pay rent.
If I didnt I would have to spend all my time creating all those things myself.
I dont know who taught you that rubbish, but he needs slapped.
I dont know if you noticed or not, but subsistance living is hard, and sucks by and large compared to modern society.
A Resounding No?
Disagree.
Depending on the machine you can replace between 1 and 20 (lets say) workers. So those 1 to 20 people at Company A are now without job. They now have to find new employment in some fashion, which means learning a new job, something that not everyone is able (age, competency) or willing to do (lazy, screw them). That new job could be the caretaker for the new machines. Either way, Company A now has fewer workers. Another option for the workers is to go work for Company B, the maker of the machines. They need salesmen, engineers, and factory workers, sure. And some of the workers can go there.
But it's still generally a sloping plot trending to smaller numbers.
If there are 20 displaced workers in one place from the new technology, not all 20 of them will find new work revolving around the new tech. And it's a viscious or self-enforcing cycle. Sometimes the tech is made because there arent enough workers or the workers are limited in capability (cant work 24 hours a day, etc). Sometimes the tech works in place with workers, symbiotically, sometimes it totally replaces them.
It's not a given that technology has no effect on unemployment, but it's not a given that it does either.
It depends on the industry, on the tech, and on the workers.