TL/DR: "Microsoft is dumb because most people play console games on their little private TV in order not to interrupt the people using WebTV in the living room."
They can mandate kids pass a proficiency test, but three years after highschool, it will have made no difference
So, it is just like biology and physics and math beyond first year algebra.
The point is it does make a difference, for they are better for having learned it, because basic concepts aren't forgotten and they will be that much less ignorant (and provincial), and some of the kids will make use of what they learn, thus advancing their country's interests in international trade.
Thanks to shrill environmentalists. It still took a decade after the ozone threat was identified to defeat the chemical lobby, and probably only happened because DuPont was already sitting on patents to alternate technology.
You're ignoring the fact that because polystyrene degrades so slowly, it is one of the worst litters and is a large component of the ocean garbage patches.
I'd happily live on top of a former Styrofoam dump.
I'm sure. Prices are so cheap, you're crazy if you're not already living on a dump.
Without some kind of external restriction, like the VISA system
It's not an acronym.
Now you're confusing the demand curve with the supply curve. The restrictions that cause shortages are almost always price controls, and there are no price controls, just people whining that the price is too damn high.
Sure, your finite supply can be exhausted, but last time I checked, there are still tens of thousands of people of people who could be programmers who aren't, instead they are doctors, lawyers, stockbrokers, CEOs, etc. It takes about five years to become a competent programmer, but people have been screaming "shortage" for fifteen. Clearly the incentives aren't high enough.
Unless you mean to say the availability of this foreign market is the variable influencing the demand curve, as if the very reason people deny the market price for programmers is that they are all waiting on the government to increase supply for them. Though then you would have to admit that the very purpose of the visa program is the surpress existing wages.
But if there is a shortage of IT workers then most companies just hold off on upgrading their old systems because they would have to pay too much.
You're deliberately conflating the wealth creating profession of software development with the maintenance profession of information technology administration to hide the emptiness of your argument.
And I'm wondering what an actual economist would say of your characterization. You've explicitly described the demand curve as elastic - raise the price, they buy fewer programmers, lower the price, they buy more. But almost by definition, shortages are impossible in that situation without some kind of external restriction. They want more, more, more, but for some reason they're unwilling to pay the higher price such vociferous demand requires.
One might deem it a good thing to do this, but it is not a step toward a tolerant and diverse society.
Ah, you sound like a rational fellow! Will you write to the Department of Justice and complain about the harassment and surveillance inflicted on those reading "Inspire Magazine"? I'm very concerned about the abridgment of free speech in this infidel country, and I think that if enough of you rally to our cause, it might be corrected with minimal losses.
That's what I said when I wanted to read the Al Qaeda magazine "Inspire". (I really love their "Humor in Hijab" section.) But some liberal muckety-muck from the State Department said it was supporting terrorism, and I'd be going to Gitmo if I kept up my subscription.
I mean, just because I advocate the execution of all Christians and homosexuals doesn't mean I'm personally going kill them. Allah's will will be done, whether I am involved or not.
Yet I'm the bad guy with my so-called "hate speech". It's funny to see how quickly that liberal idealism turns to sanctimonious hypocrisy when deeply held religious belief comes into play.
Clearly this lawyer is pointing out how people who suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect get into positions they shouldn't.
Clearly the lawyer is a buffoon. You'll deny if from me, but perhaps you would listen to the patent lawyers commenting on the original blog.
I would say at least 40% of my industry is laced with people who are barely able to work fast food.
Ah, the whole hiding false assertions behind hyperbole trick.
I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you aren't afflicted with the D-G. So who is the bigger fool, the incompetent who gets paid like the competent, or the competent complainer who continues to work in an organization that can't distinguish them?
A big difference in the market for the finished product, not much of one for the raw supply.
You can think of the sciences like game programming, where factors other than money motivate a surplus. It doesn't mean an unemployed scientist can't do something else "stemmy".
You're assuming that terrorists are motivated by war-like goals, such as diminishing material capability, and not revenge or the desire to intimidate. And you're conflating the initial attack with the manhunt later to confuse the argument.
The message would-be terrorists actually got was fuck with Boston at your peril. It will be business as usual until they find you, but then... oh, man, you're fucked. It's a city of hungry wolves and you're fresh meat, and you have their entire undivided attention.
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TL/DR: "Microsoft is dumb because most people play console games on their little private TV in order not to interrupt the people using WebTV in the living room."
So, it is just like biology and physics and math beyond first year algebra.
The point is it does make a difference, for they are better for having learned it, because basic concepts aren't forgotten and they will be that much less ignorant (and provincial), and some of the kids will make use of what they learn, thus advancing their country's interests in international trade.
Become? It has been for over a century and a half. And yet, despite it being "fine", you were just whining about it.
Thanks to shrill environmentalists. It still took a decade after the ozone threat was identified to defeat the chemical lobby, and probably only happened because DuPont was already sitting on patents to alternate technology.
You're ignoring the fact that because polystyrene degrades so slowly, it is one of the worst litters and is a large component of the ocean garbage patches.
I'm sure. Prices are so cheap, you're crazy if you're not already living on a dump.
It is an inexorable truth that you are going to die. Therefore, murdering you is not evil, since you were going to die anyway.
It's not an acronym.
Now you're confusing the demand curve with the supply curve. The restrictions that cause shortages are almost always price controls, and there are no price controls, just people whining that the price is too damn high.
Sure, your finite supply can be exhausted, but last time I checked, there are still tens of thousands of people of people who could be programmers who aren't, instead they are doctors, lawyers, stockbrokers, CEOs, etc. It takes about five years to become a competent programmer, but people have been screaming "shortage" for fifteen. Clearly the incentives aren't high enough.
Unless you mean to say the availability of this foreign market is the variable influencing the demand curve, as if the very reason people deny the market price for programmers is that they are all waiting on the government to increase supply for them. Though then you would have to admit that the very purpose of the visa program is the surpress existing wages.
You're deliberately conflating the wealth creating profession of software development with the maintenance profession of information technology administration to hide the emptiness of your argument.
And I'm wondering what an actual economist would say of your characterization. You've explicitly described the demand curve as elastic - raise the price, they buy fewer programmers, lower the price, they buy more. But almost by definition, shortages are impossible in that situation without some kind of external restriction. They want more, more, more, but for some reason they're unwilling to pay the higher price such vociferous demand requires.
It's not like they planned on using it after 2012.
If you eat or drink anything red, you're probably eating ground up insects.
So brave.
Sweet motherfucking Jebus, can people not recognize sarcasm anymore? Apparently Poe's Law applies to left-wing crazy just as well as right-wing crazy.
Correlation != causation.
People only succeed because of privilege. If they read well at age seven, it is because of privilege.
I see what you did there.
Ah, you sound like a rational fellow! Will you write to the Department of Justice and complain about the harassment and surveillance inflicted on those reading "Inspire Magazine"? I'm very concerned about the abridgment of free speech in this infidel country, and I think that if enough of you rally to our cause, it might be corrected with minimal losses.
That's what I said when I wanted to read the Al Qaeda magazine "Inspire". (I really love their "Humor in Hijab" section.) But some liberal muckety-muck from the State Department said it was supporting terrorism, and I'd be going to Gitmo if I kept up my subscription.
I mean, just because I advocate the execution of all Christians and homosexuals doesn't mean I'm personally going kill them. Allah's will will be done, whether I am involved or not.
Yet I'm the bad guy with my so-called "hate speech". It's funny to see how quickly that liberal idealism turns to sanctimonious hypocrisy when deeply held religious belief comes into play.
We didn't change, OSC did. Well, actually, he didn't change, he just stopped hiding the crazy and became an embarrassment.
The seven digit crowd grew up only knowing OSC to be a horrible little shit, so Ender's Game doesn't have the same influence for them.
Is it pronounced MAC-a-fee or Muh-CAF-ee?
Clearly the lawyer is a buffoon. You'll deny if from me, but perhaps you would listen to the patent lawyers commenting on the original blog.
Ah, the whole hiding false assertions behind hyperbole trick.
I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you aren't afflicted with the D-G. So who is the bigger fool, the incompetent who gets paid like the competent, or the competent complainer who continues to work in an organization that can't distinguish them?
So you're not a particularly obnoxious example of the Dunning-Kruger effect, but you wish you were?
A big difference in the market for the finished product, not much of one for the raw supply.
You can think of the sciences like game programming, where factors other than money motivate a surplus. It doesn't mean an unemployed scientist can't do something else "stemmy".
I liked the part where you tricked us into reading your conspiracy theory. You should have a show on Fox.
You obviously don't understand what I am referring to, so why did you feel the need to fart an opinion?
Here's the last one, I'll let you work backwards from there:
http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1cpmh6/live_boston_update_thread_part_9/
Actually, the live threads on reddit were pretty damn fast and accurate.
Sir, I humbly request you not troll this discussion forum by contradicting yourself so blatantly. No good can come of it.
You're assuming that terrorists are motivated by war-like goals, such as diminishing material capability, and not revenge or the desire to intimidate. And you're conflating the initial attack with the manhunt later to confuse the argument.
The message would-be terrorists actually got was fuck with Boston at your peril. It will be business as usual until they find you, but then... oh, man, you're fucked. It's a city of hungry wolves and you're fresh meat, and you have their entire undivided attention.