The most intelligent people I ever met were college educated. Some of the most doofus, couldn't think their way out of a wet paper bag, people I've ever met were college educated. I base my estimation of intelligence on demonstrated ability to do stuff, not the degree certificates on their walls. Your estimation of educated vs ignorant based on someones station in life is a reflection of your own ignorance.
BTW, "poor dirt farmers"? WTH, you think it's still 1930 or something? Farmer's today tend to be fairly well off, if not downright rich.
It isn't a tax, so you can think of it as one, but you'd be wrong.
And you don't "need" health insurance, especially one that is required to meet federal requirements.
-There is a growing cadre of fee-for-service doctors. Combine that with a catastrophic insurance policy, and I would meet my comfort level. -There are groups who refuse to use modern medicine. You can legitimately argue that they're nucking futs, but that doesn't remove their right to freedom. Now, you're requiring them to buy a product that they are opposed to.
And both have been railed against for the exact same reason as this law. And you don't have to buy or use either. You only have to use them when on public roads (there are a LOT of farm vehicles that don't carry license plates or liability insurance).
Will the officers involved in these incidents be punished in a way that discourages future abuse?
I have heard through the rumor mill that the police have also been filming the events. I think whether there is any punishment handed out may have something to do with what the other videos show. I think it is funny how everyone complains about police brutality to a bunch of malodorous hippies, but every person taken down on "Cops" gets a knee to the neck.
If that pump was expected to handle the pollution. Yes.
Did someone remove greed from the human psyche yesterday, and Slashdot simply refused to post a story about it? I think not. Therefore, a functioning government should be able to withstand assaults from both greedy corporate directors, entitlement recipients and labor unions.
It's not a matter of someone poisoning the water. The water has been poisoned since Cain hit able over the head with a rock (substitute analogy from your favorite genesis story). If the government can't handle human greed, then it is patently broken. The modus operandi, pretending that it doesn't exist, is the downfall of both capitalistic and communistic governments.
Nobody has yet to offer a single valid justification for so-called "net neutrality" legislation.
That's only because you have your head so far up your butt that you can't smell tyranny when it comes knocking at your door.
*Warning: US centric rant to follow*
The founding fathers of my country left it to the federal government to establish "post roads". Why would a group of men so hell-bent on limiting the federal government specifically give them the power take land to create roads? Because leaving it up to individuals or the various states would leave the country with a mish-mash of levies and fines to get from one place to another, and ultimately weaken us all. Government is the grease that allows the machinery of society to operate efficiently. Open roads enables free and open commerce, which benefits us all.
An open communication system is the same thing. The railroads, telephone, telegraph and electric lines should have been nationalized from the outset. Not the rail-cars, or switches, but the actual lines themselves. Anything that requires the power of eminent domain to implement should remain in control of the government entity that took it. Only then can we guarantee everyone equal access, and not tie up free commerce with entities that would like to see you tied up and limited to their walled garden.
Hook me up to this and let my wife plug in a monitor whenever she's around. Then I won't ever have to answer, "What are you thinking?" again!!
She NEVER believes me when I give answers like, "If we give robots hands, will they pick their noses? And would running oil through air intake ducts do the same job as snot?"
Dammit! Those are LEGITIMATE engineering questions, and yet she thinks I'm just making things up. This could just save us the whole argument, and after a while she would just give up and quit asking the stupid question...unless, she had some useful contributions to designing a proper self-cleaning air ingestion system.
Or maybe Americans overstate how terrible Walmart is? I mean, the wages are low in Canada, but honestly, it beats the hell out of a lot of other low paying jobs with zero benefits (since it has benefits). I'd have taken working there over doing Tech Support, for example.
That is the problem. WalMart got successful by automating and streamlining their supply chain. They got big, stayed smart, and they wouldn't play ball with the unions. That is, the refused to pay ridiculous wages for menial labor. That brought on all the over-the-top "abuse" stories.
So, how much should a person be paid to stack boxes on a shelf or drag them across a scanner? Cashiers don't even need to develop the skill of counting back change anymore.
If your job can be replaced by a shell script, it is time to work on your skills.
Your imagination circuits are broken then. Switches are "expensive" in electronics manufacturing terms. Someone will get a big bonus if they can find a way to leave one off a board.
But what is coding other than a practice in logical progression? I agree that it is the logic, not the coding itself, but I'm trying to envision how you could have the coding without the logic.
No amount of C programming will teach you to discern a lie, except in comments.
I would like to disagree a little. Programming is all about if-then statements. The lies of politicians all spring from the inability to test their conditionals. With a programming background, I find it all to easy to spot the weasel words.
"We want more jobs." What do you test "more" against? How you you define a "job"?
A programmer's mindset isn't a lie detector, but the exacting level of critical thinking does inform one of what questions to ask for clarification, and clarification usually uncovers an empty vessel obscured by smoke and mirrors.
You may actually be correct legally, I don't actually know, but this is baloney. Ideas are a dime a dozen. I come up with ideas ALL the time. Reducing the idea to practice, ie actually making something that does what the patent claims it does, is where the real work of inventing is. The politicians may use the definition you gave, but let's face it, most of them are in politics because they can't handle real work.
It is not until you actually try to build the invention that you uncover all the nuances that make it not work. Which shaft needs an oil galley to keep the whole machine from locking up? When will a bubble sort work, and when is a merge sort the only solution? How much heat is needed and when to make the process work at a productive rate, and how much will just boil the solution? These are the types of questions that can only be answered by building the invention, and are the type that can bring a project to a standstill. Giving a patent to someone that doesn't have a working prototype is rewarding someone for doing the work that someone else will have to do.
Would you believe that in some parts of the world, there are literally whole rivers of fresh water that are allowed to run unfettered right into the ocean. Crazy, I know, but it's true!!
Take the fabrics industry in the US. My dad worked in a plant that employed hundreds of people to watch weaving machines. All of those jobs have gone away, to be replaced by one person that watches for empty bobbins. The machine will load and automatically rethread the machine when a bobbin runs out. Just one of the new machines has replaced literally hundreds of workers.
My group used to have a secretary to handle all the paperwork and such that needed to be done. No more. We have email and a cabinet to get office supplies from. There are literally whole industries that have disappeared due to automation. More people have lost jobs due to automation than will ever be moved overseas. The problem with third world factories is that often you get a worker hired, have them there for a few weeks, finally get them productive and then they think they're rich after getting a paycheck or for some other reason they head home. You have to hire another illiterate peasant of a farm. It isn't a free lunch for the employers.
Nah... There is lots of oil locked up in oil sands and shale oil to carry on for another hundred years. If costs really start going up, we'll see more nuke plants coming online.
A corollary question. What will be the standard of living of those homeless people?
Being homeless today in America sucks, but there are people that purposefully choose that as a lifestyle. Nut cases all, in my opinion, but they choose it nonetheless. They can do it, because food is cheap (made that way through industrialization) enough that they can get all they can eat through charity. Being made homeless 200yrs ago was almost a death sentence. Today, the POOR Americans have a color TV in every room.
Robots make things cheaper, so normal people don't have to work as long to afford them. At what point do we decide that our standard of living is high enough and that we don't have to work any more to buy shit that we don't need? At what point do we start moving to that 20hr work week?
The way to fix the system is to pay an accountant on commission to find ways where the money was wasted. Give them full access to all the books, and 10% of what they find.
You don't just give ANYONE someone else's money and expect them to do the right thing. You include oversight from someone that is able to police it.
No, he means one that would give over $500million to a company that can't figure out that the Chinese can sell the product cheaper than they can make it.
Heh, the Obama administration funded a solar cell company that couldn't be bothered to do the homework to see that China would be underselling them before they could get the plant built after the Bush administration wouldn't touch them, so I don't see this as being much of a stretch. Somebody must have made a few campaign contributions.
For a short period, oil isn't evenly distributed and this cause excessive wear and stress compared to while it is running smootly.
This only happens if the car has been sitting a while and has had time for the oil to seep back into the pan. That generally takes at least several minutes. If it is happening faster than that, you're car will be oil starved and you'll have massive blowby...ie, you're engine won't work at all.
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Educated != intelligent.
The most intelligent people I ever met were college educated. Some of the most doofus, couldn't think their way out of a wet paper bag, people I've ever met were college educated. I base my estimation of intelligence on demonstrated ability to do stuff, not the degree certificates on their walls. Your estimation of educated vs ignorant based on someones station in life is a reflection of your own ignorance.
BTW, "poor dirt farmers"? WTH, you think it's still 1930 or something? Farmer's today tend to be fairly well off, if not downright rich.
11 isn't really hell until that magazine article is actually an advertisement 8*(
It isn't a tax, so you can think of it as one, but you'd be wrong.
And you don't "need" health insurance, especially one that is required to meet federal requirements.
-There is a growing cadre of fee-for-service doctors. Combine that with a catastrophic insurance policy, and I would meet my comfort level.
-There are groups who refuse to use modern medicine. You can legitimately argue that they're nucking futs, but that doesn't remove their right to freedom. Now, you're requiring them to buy a product that they are opposed to.
And both have been railed against for the exact same reason as this law. And you don't have to buy or use either. You only have to use them when on public roads (there are a LOT of farm vehicles that don't carry license plates or liability insurance).
Will the officers involved in these incidents be punished in a way that discourages future abuse?
I have heard through the rumor mill that the police have also been filming the events. I think whether there is any punishment handed out may have something to do with what the other videos show. I think it is funny how everyone complains about police brutality to a bunch of malodorous hippies, but every person taken down on "Cops" gets a knee to the neck.
If that pump was expected to handle the pollution. Yes.
Did someone remove greed from the human psyche yesterday, and Slashdot simply refused to post a story about it? I think not. Therefore, a functioning government should be able to withstand assaults from both greedy corporate directors, entitlement recipients and labor unions.
It's not a matter of someone poisoning the water. The water has been poisoned since Cain hit able over the head with a rock (substitute analogy from your favorite genesis story). If the government can't handle human greed, then it is patently broken. The modus operandi, pretending that it doesn't exist, is the downfall of both capitalistic and communistic governments.
Nobody has yet to offer a single valid justification for so-called "net neutrality" legislation.
That's only because you have your head so far up your butt that you can't smell tyranny when it comes knocking at your door.
*Warning: US centric rant to follow*
The founding fathers of my country left it to the federal government to establish "post roads". Why would a group of men so hell-bent on limiting the federal government specifically give them the power take land to create roads? Because leaving it up to individuals or the various states would leave the country with a mish-mash of levies and fines to get from one place to another, and ultimately weaken us all. Government is the grease that allows the machinery of society to operate efficiently. Open roads enables free and open commerce, which benefits us all.
An open communication system is the same thing. The railroads, telephone, telegraph and electric lines should have been nationalized from the outset. Not the rail-cars, or switches, but the actual lines themselves. Anything that requires the power of eminent domain to implement should remain in control of the government entity that took it. Only then can we guarantee everyone equal access, and not tie up free commerce with entities that would like to see you tied up and limited to their walled garden.
Hook me up to this and let my wife plug in a monitor whenever she's around. Then I won't ever have to answer, "What are you thinking?" again!!
She NEVER believes me when I give answers like, "If we give robots hands, will they pick their noses? And would running oil through air intake ducts do the same job as snot?"
Dammit! Those are LEGITIMATE engineering questions, and yet she thinks I'm just making things up. This could just save us the whole argument, and after a while she would just give up and quit asking the stupid question...unless, she had some useful contributions to designing a proper self-cleaning air ingestion system.
Anything that requires the power of eminent domain should continue to be owned and controlled by the government.
Just a simplification from a friendly, small government, libertarian leaning conservative. Government should at least make sense.
Or maybe Americans overstate how terrible Walmart is? I mean, the wages are low in Canada, but honestly, it beats the hell out of a lot of other low paying jobs with zero benefits (since it has benefits). I'd have taken working there over doing Tech Support, for example.
That is the problem. WalMart got successful by automating and streamlining their supply chain. They got big, stayed smart, and they wouldn't play ball with the unions. That is, the refused to pay ridiculous wages for menial labor. That brought on all the over-the-top "abuse" stories.
So, how much should a person be paid to stack boxes on a shelf or drag them across a scanner? Cashiers don't even need to develop the skill of counting back change anymore.
If your job can be replaced by a shell script, it is time to work on your skills.
Your imagination circuits are broken then. Switches are "expensive" in electronics manufacturing terms. Someone will get a big bonus if they can find a way to leave one off a board.
But what is coding other than a practice in logical progression? I agree that it is the logic, not the coding itself, but I'm trying to envision how you could have the coding without the logic.
No amount of C programming will teach you to discern a lie, except in comments.
I would like to disagree a little. Programming is all about if-then statements. The lies of politicians all spring from the inability to test their conditionals. With a programming background, I find it all to easy to spot the weasel words.
"We want more jobs." What do you test "more" against? How you you define a "job"?
A programmer's mindset isn't a lie detector, but the exacting level of critical thinking does inform one of what questions to ask for clarification, and clarification usually uncovers an empty vessel obscured by smoke and mirrors.
Stop being selfish asshats. Invent and release it to the wild.
My front yard need mowing. Now, would YOU stop being a selfish asshat, and come mow it for me?
The act of thinking of something is the invention
You may actually be correct legally, I don't actually know, but this is baloney. Ideas are a dime a dozen. I come up with ideas ALL the time. Reducing the idea to practice, ie actually making something that does what the patent claims it does, is where the real work of inventing is. The politicians may use the definition you gave, but let's face it, most of them are in politics because they can't handle real work.
It is not until you actually try to build the invention that you uncover all the nuances that make it not work. Which shaft needs an oil galley to keep the whole machine from locking up? When will a bubble sort work, and when is a merge sort the only solution? How much heat is needed and when to make the process work at a productive rate, and how much will just boil the solution? These are the types of questions that can only be answered by building the invention, and are the type that can bring a project to a standstill. Giving a patent to someone that doesn't have a working prototype is rewarding someone for doing the work that someone else will have to do.
Would you believe that in some parts of the world, there are literally whole rivers of fresh water that are allowed to run unfettered right into the ocean. Crazy, I know, but it's true!!
Take the fabrics industry in the US. My dad worked in a plant that employed hundreds of people to watch weaving machines. All of those jobs have gone away, to be replaced by one person that watches for empty bobbins. The machine will load and automatically rethread the machine when a bobbin runs out. Just one of the new machines has replaced literally hundreds of workers.
My group used to have a secretary to handle all the paperwork and such that needed to be done. No more. We have email and a cabinet to get office supplies from. There are literally whole industries that have disappeared due to automation. More people have lost jobs due to automation than will ever be moved overseas. The problem with third world factories is that often you get a worker hired, have them there for a few weeks, finally get them productive and then they think they're rich after getting a paycheck or for some other reason they head home. You have to hire another illiterate peasant of a farm. It isn't a free lunch for the employers.
Nah... There is lots of oil locked up in oil sands and shale oil to carry on for another hundred years. If costs really start going up, we'll see more nuke plants coming online.
Or we'll design robots to do the work. 8*)
A corollary question. What will be the standard of living of those homeless people?
Being homeless today in America sucks, but there are people that purposefully choose that as a lifestyle. Nut cases all, in my opinion, but they choose it nonetheless. They can do it, because food is cheap (made that way through industrialization) enough that they can get all they can eat through charity. Being made homeless 200yrs ago was almost a death sentence. Today, the POOR Americans have a color TV in every room.
Robots make things cheaper, so normal people don't have to work as long to afford them. At what point do we decide that our standard of living is high enough and that we don't have to work any more to buy shit that we don't need? At what point do we start moving to that 20hr work week?
I bet the article was written by a robot. It was that devoid of human character.
The way to fix the system is to pay an accountant on commission to find ways where the money was wasted. Give them full access to all the books, and 10% of what they find.
You don't just give ANYONE someone else's money and expect them to do the right thing. You include oversight from someone that is able to police it.
No, he means one that would give over $500million to a company that can't figure out that the Chinese can sell the product cheaper than they can make it.
Heh, the Obama administration funded a solar cell company that couldn't be bothered to do the homework to see that China would be underselling them before they could get the plant built after the Bush administration wouldn't touch them, so I don't see this as being much of a stretch. Somebody must have made a few campaign contributions.
For a short period, oil isn't evenly distributed and this cause excessive wear and stress compared to while it is running smootly.
This only happens if the car has been sitting a while and has had time for the oil to seep back into the pan. That generally takes at least several minutes. If it is happening faster than that, you're car will be oil starved and you'll have massive blowby...ie, you're engine won't work at all.