The VAST majority of Americans will never, ever see Morocco. If they ever do, they will be staying in some tourist trap as part of a guided tour, and will get raped by merchants anyway.
Great. Maybe if we Americans try REALLY hard, we can become as inefficient as the Europeans who require multiple languages to travel a few hundred miles.
I can get on any highway in America and drive for MONTHS, stopping every few hours to talk to locals. It is very unlikely that I would ever need anything other than English to communicate fluently. Now I could take a few man-months out of my life to learn Yiddish, but not knowing any Yiddish speaking people with which to converse, WHY THE HELL WOULD I?
Being required to know multiple languages is not something to be proud of. It is simply a poor solution to a systemic problem.
I never ceases to amaze me how people who claim they have no problem being wrong are so intolerant of those that feel their belief is the only correct one.
Heh, Jason, if I thought another belief was the correct one, why the hell would I hold onto mine!?
I don't care what you believe. Why are you so concerned with changing what is in my head? You obviously feel that your your belief is the only correct one.
We're talking about a Democratic PRIMARY, ie, the Dems are voting to see which of their own will run in the election. In this case, they have elected to have someone run that is ridiculously unqualified. The candidate's win in the primary may be due to the fact that his name was listed first on the ballot. That's definitely a possibility.
However, the original post of this thread suggested that the Dems would vote for a black candidate above a white candidate regardless of qualifications. Furthermore, that Republicans would actually plant an unqualified black candidate in order to have an unqualified candidate promoted to the real election. If this is the case, it would indicate an overriding racism on the part of Democrats. Racism so strong that it is possible to manipulate it in oder to undermine the Democratic platform.
Gosh, I wonder why the Republican tactic of literally painting democrats as corrupt, welfare-abusing criminals plays so well in some parts of the country, when it seems like a ridiculous joke in other parts? Maybe because Republicans put homeless black criminals up to run as democrats in certain parts of the country.
...and...go ahead, finish the statement......and then the Democrats vote for the homeless black criminal, just because he's black. Thus, their racism brings down the whole platform.
And nice strawman there about the scooter. I presume from your tone that you consider it a luxury item for fat people. But this isn't about giving away luxury items, it's about making sure people can get the healthcare they require.
And while I believe you and others who push for universal healthcare are well meaning, I think this is where the problems really develop. Define "healthcare" and then define "require". These two points are the devils in the details. There will never be an agreement on what should be covered. Is the fat guy in the scooter chair a victim of circumstance, or the architect of his own demise? And in any case, you are forcing the 9 to be responsible for the 1, under the presumption that all 9 would demand other's resources in the case that they were the one to contract the cancer. I question that presumption.
It's a VOTE, not a friggin' multiple choice test. If you don't have a clear idea who you want to vote for, stay away from the damn ballot box. You obviously have not put enough thought into this thing.
The problem with American politics is that we think a pulse is a qualification for voting, thus allowing every mouth-breathing ignoramus to sway election results.
I'm in favor of the ballot being a sheet of paper with the offices listed with a line next to it. The voters are required to write in the name of the person they are voting for. It must be spelled correctly to count. If you can't even spell the name of the candidate, you've clearly demonstrated that you have not been paying attention.
So, you're saying that Democrats in SC are so racists that their whole party platform can be brought down by having someone running that is ostensibly on the same side but of a different heritage?
And you can get boxes of the same thing from any of the big box home improvement stores. I bought some to go along a walkway. Nice accentuation lighting, but the cheap nicads are shot in about a year.
If it is running on millions of setups, you most definitely can double up on testing man hours to double the speed of testing. You run it in parallel. I guess you really are that stupid.
Furthermore, you wouldn't test it on millions of setups, unless you also thought that you can't run different setups in parallel. You'd run it on a few dozen carefully chosen configurations is an automated test harness.
I do happen to work in QA, and we run developer hot fixes periodically. You don't have to run a whole test suite of the whole OS. Just a subset that entails the surrounding functionality. If they have to test the entirety of Windows to verify the validity of a fix to a minor protocol stack, then we now know why the Windows OS is a rickety piece of stink.
How about I waste all of my resources I damn well please? Up to the point I start taking yours without your permission I'm still living as an honest man.
IBitOBear, this would never work. It is absolutely to simple and efficient. And what would we do with all of that recovered crude, that BP was paying millions to extract from the bottom of the Gulf? It only sells for, what, $70/barrel at the moment? There is no way that $70/barrel could possibly cover the operating cost of a barge (or an out-of-work fishing boat) with a trolling motor and some Harbor Freight quality conveyor belt equipment.
Sarcasm aside, these ideas are a dime-a-dozen, and most would work. Yours has the added benefit of being a cheap, continuous operation. The question at this point is, why are we waiting around? Why aren't we implementing even half solutions in order to mitigate as much damage as possible?
Write a program or two, then support it for more than a week. After you do so, maybe you won't be such a naive idiot.
The engineer presented a very specific exploit, with a workaround to fix it. The exploit mechanism was very clear. If MS has any design documents at all, it would be simple to trace out how the mechanism works in the system with such a clear pointer to the problem source. Mythical-man-month points out difficult projects with complex timeline inter-dependancies. Not something that is generally applicable to an identified bug fix.
I'd like to find a citation that shows that the people who upgrade their plasma screens also improve their insulation. I doubt there is one, because most Americans have not heard squat about insulation. Even something as basic as a double-pane window is rare anywhere but the extremely cold areas.
Well, you should stop watching MTV and VH1 and poke your head out your front door occasionally. People that have to pay their own power bills are all over things like better insulation and double pane windows. Plastic sheeting on windows. Weather stripping. The list is huge. We don't do it to make way for the poor of the world to join us. We do it to try to avoid joining THEM.
Use them in conjunction. Make a big "bowl" out of the filter material. Skim and water off the surface and pump it into the bowls. Have the diaper on device that looks like a Mississippi steamboat paddle that absorbs and is then squeezed.
In any case, the solutions are a dime a dozen. The problem is that NONE of them are being used. A month and a half into this thing, and we still have an administration sitting on its hands, talking about kicking someone's ass instead of engaging available resources to mitigate the damages.
Yeah, right on, dude. Because when we build roads, and schools, and hospitals, those
useful, capable and potentially produtive members of the human community
won't come in behind and blow them up and then beat the women for the audacity of accepting medical care or an education. Those potentially fine, upstanding members of the human race won't shoot old men for accepting food for their starving tribe or allowing tribe members to be educated on ways to better grow food crops. Nothing like that ever happens...potentially.
The prop first acts as a static sail. Just a big blob catching the wind. That gets the car to moving.
Now there is a dynamic effect that comes into play. The moving car makes the propeller turn. The propeller turns into a much larger pseudo sail. The pseudo sail is drawing energy from the 13mph wind, which pushes the car forward, and draws off some of the energy. The rest of the wind derived energy is pushed back into the prop which drives the car forward even faster. You can think of the propeller backwash as pushing against the wind.
The system only works because there is excess energy beyond what is necessary to drive the car forward.
Have you ever seen what happens to a busy highway when a policeman pulls on? Bumper to bumper traffic flowing smoothly at 10mph over the speed limit suddenly turns into a long thin parking lot with several fender benders, and one unlucky motorist occupying a precariously dangerous position parked in front of an idiot's police car in the break down lane.
A semi-safe situation turns into a mess through the introduction of the highway patrolman catalyst. In no way, whatsoever, did stopping the "speeder" make anything safer.
If you haven't seen any of the various studies documenting how fender benders have increased with the introduction of red light cameras, I would suggest you get out more.
Except that the end result of all men not remaining equal is that we now have a situation where policemen are infallible, you can be convicted of a crime without any evidence, and you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent.
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The VAST majority of Americans will never, ever see Morocco. If they ever do, they will be staying in some tourist trap as part of a guided tour, and will get raped by merchants anyway.
Great. Maybe if we Americans try REALLY hard, we can become as inefficient as the Europeans who require multiple languages to travel a few hundred miles.
I can get on any highway in America and drive for MONTHS, stopping every few hours to talk to locals. It is very unlikely that I would ever need anything other than English to communicate fluently. Now I could take a few man-months out of my life to learn Yiddish, but not knowing any Yiddish speaking people with which to converse, WHY THE HELL WOULD I?
Being required to know multiple languages is not something to be proud of. It is simply a poor solution to a systemic problem.
I never ceases to amaze me how people who claim they have no problem being wrong are so intolerant of those that feel their belief is the only correct one.
Heh, Jason, if I thought another belief was the correct one, why the hell would I hold onto mine!?
I don't care what you believe. Why are you so concerned with changing what is in my head? You obviously feel that your your belief is the only correct one.
We're talking about a Democratic PRIMARY, ie, the Dems are voting to see which of their own will run in the election. In this case, they have elected to have someone run that is ridiculously unqualified. The candidate's win in the primary may be due to the fact that his name was listed first on the ballot. That's definitely a possibility.
However, the original post of this thread suggested that the Dems would vote for a black candidate above a white candidate regardless of qualifications. Furthermore, that Republicans would actually plant an unqualified black candidate in order to have an unqualified candidate promoted to the real election. If this is the case, it would indicate an overriding racism on the part of Democrats. Racism so strong that it is possible to manipulate it in oder to undermine the Democratic platform.
Gosh, I wonder why the Republican tactic of literally painting democrats as corrupt, welfare-abusing criminals plays so well in some parts of the country, when it seems like a ridiculous joke in other parts? Maybe because Republicans put homeless black criminals up to run as democrats in certain parts of the country.
...and...go ahead, finish the statement... ...and then the Democrats vote for the homeless black criminal, just because he's black. Thus, their racism brings down the whole platform.
And nice strawman there about the scooter. I presume from your tone that you consider it a luxury item for fat people. But this isn't about giving away luxury items, it's about making sure people can get the healthcare they require.
And while I believe you and others who push for universal healthcare are well meaning, I think this is where the problems really develop. Define "healthcare" and then define "require". These two points are the devils in the details. There will never be an agreement on what should be covered. Is the fat guy in the scooter chair a victim of circumstance, or the architect of his own demise? And in any case, you are forcing the 9 to be responsible for the 1, under the presumption that all 9 would demand other's resources in the case that they were the one to contract the cancer. I question that presumption.
It's a VOTE, not a friggin' multiple choice test. If you don't have a clear idea who you want to vote for, stay away from the damn ballot box. You obviously have not put enough thought into this thing.
The problem with American politics is that we think a pulse is a qualification for voting, thus allowing every mouth-breathing ignoramus to sway election results.
I'm in favor of the ballot being a sheet of paper with the offices listed with a line next to it. The voters are required to write in the name of the person they are voting for. It must be spelled correctly to count. If you can't even spell the name of the candidate, you've clearly demonstrated that you have not been paying attention.
So, you're saying that Democrats in SC are so racists that their whole party platform can be brought down by having someone running that is ostensibly on the same side but of a different heritage?
Damn. Just, damn.
Yeah, but say that after the solar storm has re-arranged the continents.
And you can get boxes of the same thing from any of the big box home improvement stores. I bought some to go along a walkway. Nice accentuation lighting, but the cheap nicads are shot in about a year.
If it is running on millions of setups, you most definitely can double up on testing man hours to double the speed of testing. You run it in parallel. I guess you really are that stupid.
Furthermore, you wouldn't test it on millions of setups, unless you also thought that you can't run different setups in parallel. You'd run it on a few dozen carefully chosen configurations is an automated test harness.
I do happen to work in QA, and we run developer hot fixes periodically. You don't have to run a whole test suite of the whole OS. Just a subset that entails the surrounding functionality. If they have to test the entirety of Windows to verify the validity of a fix to a minor protocol stack, then we now know why the Windows OS is a rickety piece of stink.
Ideally, the cost of healthcare should be pulled from a bucket that everyone puts into so the 10%* who really need it don't go bankrupt.
Ideal for whom? The insurance company? My ideal situation would be for everyone to make their own choices.
But..but..what about the POOR?! If they can't manage their money, they don't deserve a damn scooter chair.
How about I waste all of my resources I damn well please? Up to the point I start taking yours without your permission I'm still living as an honest man.
IBitOBear, this would never work. It is absolutely to simple and efficient. And what would we do with all of that recovered crude, that BP was paying millions to extract from the bottom of the Gulf? It only sells for, what, $70/barrel at the moment? There is no way that $70/barrel could possibly cover the operating cost of a barge (or an out-of-work fishing boat) with a trolling motor and some Harbor Freight quality conveyor belt equipment.
Sarcasm aside, these ideas are a dime-a-dozen, and most would work. Yours has the added benefit of being a cheap, continuous operation. The question at this point is, why are we waiting around? Why aren't we implementing even half solutions in order to mitigate as much damage as possible?
Write a program or two, then support it for more than a week. After you do so, maybe you won't be such a naive idiot.
The engineer presented a very specific exploit, with a workaround to fix it. The exploit mechanism was very clear. If MS has any design documents at all, it would be simple to trace out how the mechanism works in the system with such a clear pointer to the problem source. Mythical-man-month points out difficult projects with complex timeline inter-dependancies. Not something that is generally applicable to an identified bug fix.
What would those problems be? I found graffiti to be fairly efficient, and much faster than texting with a keyboardless phone.
No the real problem is that someone making $30,000 a year expects someone else to pay $15,000 to take care of their health.
Wasn't there a few Democrats in power when all of these laws enabling this bullstuff were being passed?
I'd like to find a citation that shows that the people who upgrade their plasma screens also improve their insulation. I doubt there is one, because most Americans have not heard squat about insulation. Even something as basic as a double-pane window is rare anywhere but the extremely cold areas.
Well, you should stop watching MTV and VH1 and poke your head out your front door occasionally. People that have to pay their own power bills are all over things like better insulation and double pane windows. Plastic sheeting on windows. Weather stripping. The list is huge. We don't do it to make way for the poor of the world to join us. We do it to try to avoid joining THEM.
Use them in conjunction. Make a big "bowl" out of the filter material. Skim and water off the surface and pump it into the bowls. Have the diaper on device that looks like a Mississippi steamboat paddle that absorbs and is then squeezed.
In any case, the solutions are a dime a dozen. The problem is that NONE of them are being used. A month and a half into this thing, and we still have an administration sitting on its hands, talking about kicking someone's ass instead of engaging available resources to mitigate the damages.
Yeah, right on, dude. Because when we build roads, and schools, and hospitals, those
useful, capable and potentially produtive members of the human community
won't come in behind and blow them up and then beat the women for the audacity of accepting medical care or an education. Those potentially fine, upstanding members of the human race won't shoot old men for accepting food for their starving tribe or allowing tribe members to be educated on ways to better grow food crops. Nothing like that ever happens...potentially.
The prop first acts as a static sail. Just a big blob catching the wind. That gets the car to moving.
Now there is a dynamic effect that comes into play. The moving car makes the propeller turn. The propeller turns into a much larger pseudo sail. The pseudo sail is drawing energy from the 13mph wind, which pushes the car forward, and draws off some of the energy. The rest of the wind derived energy is pushed back into the prop which drives the car forward even faster. You can think of the propeller backwash as pushing against the wind.
The system only works because there is excess energy beyond what is necessary to drive the car forward.
It's not the pot that makes them stupid. It's just the fact that people they show on TV are stupid.
I think you implied what I corrected, I just wanted to clarify it.
Have you ever seen what happens to a busy highway when a policeman pulls on? Bumper to bumper traffic flowing smoothly at 10mph over the speed limit suddenly turns into a long thin parking lot with several fender benders, and one unlucky motorist occupying a precariously dangerous position parked in front of an idiot's police car in the break down lane.
A semi-safe situation turns into a mess through the introduction of the highway patrolman catalyst. In no way, whatsoever, did stopping the "speeder" make anything safer.
If you haven't seen any of the various studies documenting how fender benders have increased with the introduction of red light cameras, I would suggest you get out more.
Except that the end result of all men not remaining equal is that we now have a situation where policemen are infallible, you can be convicted of a crime without any evidence, and you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent.
Welcome to your police state.