Saying that women have always been the primary victims of war is pretty damn insulting to those men and boys maimed and killed in wars they were forced to fight in.
OTOH, the leaders who sent them were generally all male as well. However, this argument presumes that female leaders wouldn't have done the same.
"Killing" is a bit of an overstatement, especially with the GOP primary vote being spit 11 ways vs the Democrats' three ways. Even with that difference Trump's numbers aren't that much lower than Sanders' (which terrifies me, but it is what it is).
If Goldwater had been matched up against a Northern socialist atheist Democrat, he would have been elected rather easily.
There are no "Northern socialist atheist Democrats" running for president.
That's not an unreasonable description of Sanders. He's Jewish but has specifically said that he's not religious. Non-religious isn't the same thing as "atheist", but it's not that far off, especially if we take it to reference "weak" atheism, AKA agnosticism. Anyway, make it "Northern socialist Jewish Democrat" if you prefer.
Personally, I hope paiute's comment is wrong for 2016, because I think Trump would be an unmitigated disaster for the country. I don't like socialism, but given a Trump/Sanders race I'd hold my nose and vote for Sanders without a moment's hesitation.
Are there? If so, they're either not very libertarian, or they haven't listened to him. Or maybe they're just looking to blow up the establishment in the hope that it will open a crack for libertarian candidates... and not thinking hard enough about the damage Trump would do.
Libertarian here... Just curious, why do real liberals go for Democrats? Other than a few outliers, arent they all bought and paid for and fascist (my way or jail) types? Why not vote for a Libertarian who is not part of the establishment false left/right paradigm?
Because liberals want to restrict economic freedom (for reasons they believe are good, obviously). That makes their beliefs incompatible with libertarianism, for precisely the same reason that conservative beliefs are incompatible with libertarianism, just around different topics.
Not only that: just sending the article can make it classified. Suppose I have classified information about the North Korean nuclear weapons program, and someone sends me an email asking for a good overview of the NK nuclear weapons program. That's a classified query about classified information. My response, even if it's just sending a link to the NYT article, is a classified response.
In that case, your decision to send the link in response to the query does actually provide information beyond the content of the article... specifically it indicates that, based on your classified knowledge, you consider the newspaper article to be correct, or at least sufficiently correct to be worth referencing.
What happened is that it was missed off some mechanical typewriters and was left off the keyboards and character sets for most computers. Computer programmers cheated and used a period instead of a decimal point, and as publishing moved to digital formats, it was easier for people to use the period in place of the point.
That's only part of the story. Another important part is that the mid-dot (AKA interpunct) was being used in mathematics to symbolize multiplication. For example, is 12 <imagine mid-dot here> 523 equal to 12 + 523/1000 or 6276? For that reason the SI explicitly rejected the interpunct for a decimal mark. This lead Britain to standardize on the decimal point in the 1960s... long before publishing went digital in any significant way. The United States always used the decimal point. Contintental Europe largely followed France's lead in using the comma. SI says that either decimal point or comma may be used as the decimal mark, and specifies that a space should be used as the thousands separator.
I hate to break it to you, 'nerds' have moved on in the last ~20 years. Not all nerds know HTML.
I didn't say "If you don't know HTML, you don't belong here", I said "If you can't figure out how to format your post with HTML, you don't belong here". Nerds can learn a few markup tags, if they don't already know them.
We've both been around long enough to remember numerical Karma, I think. I know I remember building up a fairly high number, and then "spending" it with some silly trolls just for grins and giggles. Have you thought through the whole idea of gamifying it?
+1
Numerical Karma was replaced with the current system for very good reasons, learned through experience. (Note: Don't let my user ID fool you, I've also been around for quite some time. I just created a new G+ login-based account when for some reason username/password login stopped working on my desktop machine.)
Also feature request: may we have an option to have an automatic translation of US customary measurements into Metric.
Even Google can't get that right. Try typing in "1 gallon in litres" and see what it gives you. I get 4.54609, and someone in the US gets 3.78541, and anywhere else in the world I have no idea.
That is Google getting it impressively right, assuming you live in a region where the imperial gallon is used.
Try typing "1 US gallon in liters" or "1 imperial gallon in liters" (or "litres" if you have that oddly-specific dyslexia common in British Commonwealth countries).
Bah. This is news for nerds. If we're going to change the formatting options, let's go back to HTML being the only choice. If you can't figure out how to format your post with HTML tags, you don't belong here.
Electric trucks make a lot of sense... if you can get the price down.
Trucks benefit from having lots of torque for pulling, towing and hauling. If you went with a hub motor design, each wheel independently powered and each on a motorized jack, you could create a phenomenal off-road vehicle, able to adapt to all sorts of terrain.
The challenge is that trucks also need decent range even when pulling a heavy load. My pickup has a 600+-mile range, not because I need to drive that far but so when I'm pulling something that cuts my fuel efficiency in half I still have a 300-mile range. In an EV, this means lots of batteries, which means lots of $$$. A Tesla Model S P85D's 90 kWh battery is probably 1/2 the size you'd need for a half-ton pickup, and you'd need to go even bigger for heavier trucks. I don't know how large the market for $150K pickups is.
If you borrow 4X as much money under the same terms (say, 30-year fixed)
most people don't do 15-year fixed for their first home loan. 30-year is the standard.
Were you responding to someone else? I actually expected a response quibbling about terms, because in very high-cost areas like Silicon Valley 40-year terms are pretty common, and that, of course, does reduce the rate at which equity grows. But you quibbled in the opposite direction:-)
A loan can be a real estate investment, but it's not a very good one if you add the complication of living in the home. Once you're living in it, you give up enough flexibly in terms of selling it to write it down as an asset. If you sold your home when the market is high, what would you do with the money? Probably buy another home immediately, while the market is high. Not much opportunity to translate that "investment" into profit.
Not true, because houses come in a variety of price ranges, or instead of selling you can do a reverse mortgage. You can cash out your investment by relocating to a cheaper area or by buying a smaller, cheaper house. Retirement is a good time for both relocating and stepping down, so it's quite reasonable to consider your home an investment for retirement.
Reverse mortgages are a bad idea in purely economic terms, but that assumes that you want to leave as much to your kids as you can when you die. If you don't care about that, it would usually be better to sell the house, roll the proceeds into your retirement investment accounts and then rent until you die. However, that could get you in trouble if you live a lot longer than you anticipated, whereas with a reverse mortgage you get to stay in the house until death. You could still end up strapped for cash, but as long as you can pay the property taxes and insurance you'll have the house.
Well, let's just hope that someone finds a way to force this issue into court. The biggest problem is that the government has so many ways to keep the questions from even being investigated. The worst possible case is that a company is compelled to keep the canary up and can't even argue about it in the public view (the argument would serve as canary removal).
But, how is this more careful? How does an id and passport prove that you are you, unless you are actually in front of the person so they can compare you to your picture? All someone has to do is steal your purse/bag and they can upload scans of your id and passport.
It makes it so that someone at least has to steal your ID and passport. I don't know if they do, but they could also check with the issuing agency to find out if the document was lost or stolen.
When you buy a small house for $800k in the bay area versus a $200k home in a rural part of another state, it doesn't mean you need 4x the salary. It means you need 2x the income (spouse would have to work) and take out a bigger loan. Bigger loan means you build equity up slower because most of your mortgage payments go towards the interest (really, it gets ugly for any loan over $400k).
The proportion of your payment going to equity depends on the duration of the loan, not the size. If you borrow 4X as much money under the same terms (say, 30-year fixed) your payment will be 4X as much, and you'll be paying 4X the interest and stacking up 4X the equity. So in dollar terms, you build equity faster... assuming real estate prices stay unchanged (more on that in a bit).
So, if you can make enough extra money to buy that $800K house, you'll eventually be forced to save more money. However, if your spouse has to work in order to make that happen, and wouldn't work in a different area, then you have to look at that side of the equation. What if you were to stay in the lower-income, lower cost-of-living area and your spouse were to work and invest all of his/her income (after taxes, including the increased taxes from your salary) in the house, to build equity faster? It depends on the details, of course, but in most cases you'd own the $200K house free and clear in a few years. Plus, of course, there are all of the tangible and non-tangible benefits of having a parent stay at home.
But... what if real estate prices move? Your loan is a leveraged real estate investment. If prices rise significantly, you come out way ahead on that $800K house vs a $200K house. If they drop, though, that leverage works against you, and you're risking more in the more expensive area. You could well plan to leave the expensive area and take your equity with you, only to find that you don't have much equity. You may be under water, potentially by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Amazing what can happen when Steve Jobs and his criminal conspirators don't collude to no-poach rob working families of billions of dollars.
Didn't the no-poaching agreement end five or six years ago? I doubt it's responsible for much, if any, of salary increases in 2015. And I doubt that salaries in that very small (though high-end) segment of the IT industry can significantly move the nationwide mean.
but uber drivers are not true IC's unlike say some useing a work market type board where the board just takes "fees like ebay with very little control over the work"
Branded drivers be it being an a taxi, fedex, cableco, uber, food delivery, etc. They control to varying levels the dispatch, fees, hiring, routes, etc.
So you're saying that "branded drivers" are even more like employees than Uber drivers?
Well, the way the canary works is that you don't remove it yourself. It's removed automatically if you don't periodically reconfirm that you haven't been served with a warrant (or National Security Letter).
I don't think judges are likely to be impressed by such hair-splitting.
The Wikipedia article on National Security Letters has links.
I'm familiar with gag orders, but not with anything that can require you to say something you don't want to say.
I'm quite certain the law only provides for gag orders, and cannot force you to lie. I didn't call gstoddart on that imprecision.
That would invalidate that whole warrent canary thing that a lot of privacy-minded groups are doing.
I'm not sure the warrant canary thing is legal. I think a court might construe the removal of the "no warrants" statement as an affirmative statement that a warrant with accompanying gag order has been received. In that way, I suppose it's possible that the law could require you to lie.
And surrendering ICANN to these people is likely to result in new rules put in place to restrict speech more than anything.
That seems very likely to me, and it's worrisome.
Moreover, I really don't see the problem with ICANN staying right where it is. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If there were evidence that the system for assigning names and numbers is broken, that would be a different story, but it seems like this move is all about "fixing" a non-problem for political reasons... and doing it in a way that risks creating real problems.
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The larger ones won't be able to ship in one piece at all.
From the article "the five to seven pieces that form each turbine blade can be more easily shipped and assembled at the point of use".
Maybe you need to look up the difference between being an "atheist" and being "not religious".
They are not remotely the same thing.
Nice selective quoting.
Saying that women have always been the primary victims of war is pretty damn insulting to those men and boys maimed and killed in wars they were forced to fight in.
OTOH, the leaders who sent them were generally all male as well. However, this argument presumes that female leaders wouldn't have done the same.
Sanders is killing the entire GOP in the polls
"Killing" is a bit of an overstatement, especially with the GOP primary vote being spit 11 ways vs the Democrats' three ways. Even with that difference Trump's numbers aren't that much lower than Sanders' (which terrifies me, but it is what it is).
There are no "Northern socialist atheist Democrats" running for president.
That's not an unreasonable description of Sanders. He's Jewish but has specifically said that he's not religious. Non-religious isn't the same thing as "atheist", but it's not that far off, especially if we take it to reference "weak" atheism, AKA agnosticism. Anyway, make it "Northern socialist Jewish Democrat" if you prefer.
Personally, I hope paiute's comment is wrong for 2016, because I think Trump would be an unmitigated disaster for the country. I don't like socialism, but given a Trump/Sanders race I'd hold my nose and vote for Sanders without a moment's hesitation.
Why are there libertarians voting for Trump?
Are there? If so, they're either not very libertarian, or they haven't listened to him. Or maybe they're just looking to blow up the establishment in the hope that it will open a crack for libertarian candidates... and not thinking hard enough about the damage Trump would do.
Libertarian here... Just curious, why do real liberals go for Democrats? Other than a few outliers, arent they all bought and paid for and fascist (my way or jail) types? Why not vote for a Libertarian who is not part of the establishment false left/right paradigm?
Because liberals want to restrict economic freedom (for reasons they believe are good, obviously). That makes their beliefs incompatible with libertarianism, for precisely the same reason that conservative beliefs are incompatible with libertarianism, just around different topics.
Not only that: just sending the article can make it classified. Suppose I have classified information about the North Korean nuclear weapons program, and someone sends me an email asking for a good overview of the NK nuclear weapons program. That's a classified query about classified information. My response, even if it's just sending a link to the NYT article, is a classified response.
In that case, your decision to send the link in response to the query does actually provide information beyond the content of the article... specifically it indicates that, based on your classified knowledge, you consider the newspaper article to be correct, or at least sufficiently correct to be worth referencing.
What happened is that it was missed off some mechanical typewriters and was left off the keyboards and character sets for most computers. Computer programmers cheated and used a period instead of a decimal point, and as publishing moved to digital formats, it was easier for people to use the period in place of the point.
That's only part of the story. Another important part is that the mid-dot (AKA interpunct) was being used in mathematics to symbolize multiplication. For example, is 12 <imagine mid-dot here> 523 equal to 12 + 523/1000 or 6276? For that reason the SI explicitly rejected the interpunct for a decimal mark. This lead Britain to standardize on the decimal point in the 1960s... long before publishing went digital in any significant way. The United States always used the decimal point. Contintental Europe largely followed France's lead in using the comma. SI says that either decimal point or comma may be used as the decimal mark, and specifies that a space should be used as the thousands separator.
I know 3D printers are all the rage these days, but low cost CNC mills will give you far far better results than low cost 3D printers.
Any specific recommendations?
I hate to break it to you, 'nerds' have moved on in the last ~20 years. Not all nerds know HTML.
I didn't say "If you don't know HTML, you don't belong here", I said "If you can't figure out how to format your post with HTML, you don't belong here". Nerds can learn a few markup tags, if they don't already know them.
Gamify the f--k out of Karma.
We've both been around long enough to remember numerical Karma, I think. I know I remember building up a fairly high number, and then "spending" it with some silly trolls just for grins and giggles. Have you thought through the whole idea of gamifying it?
+1
Numerical Karma was replaced with the current system for very good reasons, learned through experience. (Note: Don't let my user ID fool you, I've also been around for quite some time. I just created a new G+ login-based account when for some reason username/password login stopped working on my desktop machine.)
Also feature request: may we have an option to have an automatic translation of US customary measurements into Metric.
Even Google can't get that right. Try typing in "1 gallon in litres" and see what it gives you. I get 4.54609, and someone in the US gets 3.78541, and anywhere else in the world I have no idea.
That is Google getting it impressively right, assuming you live in a region where the imperial gallon is used.
Try typing "1 US gallon in liters" or "1 imperial gallon in liters" (or "litres" if you have that oddly-specific dyslexia common in British Commonwealth countries).
Bah. This is news for nerds. If we're going to change the formatting options, let's go back to HTML being the only choice. If you can't figure out how to format your post with HTML tags, you don't belong here.
He isn't talking about pickups. He is talking about real trucks.
From TFA: "Elon Musk hinted that a Tesla branded pickup truck isn’t entirely outside the realm of possibility."
He's talking about pickup trucks.
Electric trucks make a lot of sense... if you can get the price down.
Trucks benefit from having lots of torque for pulling, towing and hauling. If you went with a hub motor design, each wheel independently powered and each on a motorized jack, you could create a phenomenal off-road vehicle, able to adapt to all sorts of terrain.
The challenge is that trucks also need decent range even when pulling a heavy load. My pickup has a 600+-mile range, not because I need to drive that far but so when I'm pulling something that cuts my fuel efficiency in half I still have a 300-mile range. In an EV, this means lots of batteries, which means lots of $$$. A Tesla Model S P85D's 90 kWh battery is probably 1/2 the size you'd need for a half-ton pickup, and you'd need to go even bigger for heavier trucks. I don't know how large the market for $150K pickups is.
If you borrow 4X as much money under the same terms (say, 30-year fixed)
most people don't do 15-year fixed for their first home loan. 30-year is the standard.
Were you responding to someone else? I actually expected a response quibbling about terms, because in very high-cost areas like Silicon Valley 40-year terms are pretty common, and that, of course, does reduce the rate at which equity grows. But you quibbled in the opposite direction :-)
A loan can be a real estate investment, but it's not a very good one if you add the complication of living in the home. Once you're living in it, you give up enough flexibly in terms of selling it to write it down as an asset. If you sold your home when the market is high, what would you do with the money? Probably buy another home immediately, while the market is high. Not much opportunity to translate that "investment" into profit.
Not true, because houses come in a variety of price ranges, or instead of selling you can do a reverse mortgage. You can cash out your investment by relocating to a cheaper area or by buying a smaller, cheaper house. Retirement is a good time for both relocating and stepping down, so it's quite reasonable to consider your home an investment for retirement.
Reverse mortgages are a bad idea in purely economic terms, but that assumes that you want to leave as much to your kids as you can when you die. If you don't care about that, it would usually be better to sell the house, roll the proceeds into your retirement investment accounts and then rent until you die. However, that could get you in trouble if you live a lot longer than you anticipated, whereas with a reverse mortgage you get to stay in the house until death. You could still end up strapped for cash, but as long as you can pay the property taxes and insurance you'll have the house.
Well, let's just hope that someone finds a way to force this issue into court. The biggest problem is that the government has so many ways to keep the questions from even being investigated. The worst possible case is that a company is compelled to keep the canary up and can't even argue about it in the public view (the argument would serve as canary removal).
But, how is this more careful? How does an id and passport prove that you are you, unless you are actually in front of the person so they can compare you to your picture? All someone has to do is steal your purse/bag and they can upload scans of your id and passport.
It makes it so that someone at least has to steal your ID and passport. I don't know if they do, but they could also check with the issuing agency to find out if the document was lost or stolen.
When you buy a small house for $800k in the bay area versus a $200k home in a rural part of another state, it doesn't mean you need 4x the salary. It means you need 2x the income (spouse would have to work) and take out a bigger loan. Bigger loan means you build equity up slower because most of your mortgage payments go towards the interest (really, it gets ugly for any loan over $400k).
The proportion of your payment going to equity depends on the duration of the loan, not the size. If you borrow 4X as much money under the same terms (say, 30-year fixed) your payment will be 4X as much, and you'll be paying 4X the interest and stacking up 4X the equity. So in dollar terms, you build equity faster... assuming real estate prices stay unchanged (more on that in a bit).
So, if you can make enough extra money to buy that $800K house, you'll eventually be forced to save more money. However, if your spouse has to work in order to make that happen, and wouldn't work in a different area, then you have to look at that side of the equation. What if you were to stay in the lower-income, lower cost-of-living area and your spouse were to work and invest all of his/her income (after taxes, including the increased taxes from your salary) in the house, to build equity faster? It depends on the details, of course, but in most cases you'd own the $200K house free and clear in a few years. Plus, of course, there are all of the tangible and non-tangible benefits of having a parent stay at home.
But... what if real estate prices move? Your loan is a leveraged real estate investment. If prices rise significantly, you come out way ahead on that $800K house vs a $200K house. If they drop, though, that leverage works against you, and you're risking more in the more expensive area. You could well plan to leave the expensive area and take your equity with you, only to find that you don't have much equity. You may be under water, potentially by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Amazing what can happen when Steve Jobs and his criminal conspirators don't collude to no-poach rob working families of billions of dollars.
Didn't the no-poaching agreement end five or six years ago? I doubt it's responsible for much, if any, of salary increases in 2015. And I doubt that salaries in that very small (though high-end) segment of the IT industry can significantly move the nationwide mean.
but uber drivers are not true IC's unlike say some useing a work market type board where the board just takes "fees like ebay with very little control over the work"
Branded drivers be it being an a taxi, fedex, cableco, uber, food delivery, etc. They control to varying levels the dispatch, fees, hiring, routes, etc.
So you're saying that "branded drivers" are even more like employees than Uber drivers?
Well, the way the canary works is that you don't remove it yourself. It's removed automatically if you don't periodically reconfirm that you haven't been served with a warrant (or National Security Letter).
I don't think judges are likely to be impressed by such hair-splitting.
I would like to read those laws.
The Wikipedia article on National Security Letters has links.
I'm familiar with gag orders, but not with anything that can require you to say something you don't want to say.
I'm quite certain the law only provides for gag orders, and cannot force you to lie. I didn't call gstoddart on that imprecision.
That would invalidate that whole warrent canary thing that a lot of privacy-minded groups are doing.
I'm not sure the warrant canary thing is legal. I think a court might construe the removal of the "no warrants" statement as an affirmative statement that a warrant with accompanying gag order has been received. In that way, I suppose it's possible that the law could require you to lie.
And surrendering ICANN to these people is likely to result in new rules put in place to restrict speech more than anything.
That seems very likely to me, and it's worrisome.
Moreover, I really don't see the problem with ICANN staying right where it is. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If there were evidence that the system for assigning names and numbers is broken, that would be a different story, but it seems like this move is all about "fixing" a non-problem for political reasons... and doing it in a way that risks creating real problems.