Really, now? And how come all the news reports were blaming Bush for the downturn following the Internet bust in 2000 when the man had barely had time to write his first State of the Union address? Partisan much?
I take it that the foolishness that is Barack Obama wasn't obvious to you then? This point is especially painful to me as I'm in the market for a used car.
This is a difficult problem considering the vagueness of language. IMO, laws should protect the greater good as well as individual rights as evenly as possible. Some examples:
Let's say a man is speeding down the highway. A state patrolman pulls him over for doing 90 in a 65 zone. The trooper goes up to the window and reveals his pregnant wife in the back seat, currently in labor. Does the patrolman write him out a ticket, or let him go? Following the letter of the law, he'd get a ticket, and potentially lose his driver's license. But there's almost no peace officer who would give out a ticket in that situation - it's rather common for them to escort the car the rest of the way, siren's blaring.
And then write the speeder a ticket at the hospital. Happened to my brother-in-law 8*)
What a bunch of whiners. "The program I used 20 years ago went away! "
Pfft! How about getting a real friggin' parallel and serial port on a modern laptop. Embedded computers still like to talk to the world over a 9600baud connection, and the parallel port still makes an awesome cheap multi-sensor port.
they are burning fuel and OXIDIZER. It's higher for diesel, but for gasoline you need 12 to 17 lbs of air for every pound of fuel. For each 1000 lbs of fuel, this engine would enabled you to leave 14,000 lbs of oxidizer in the tank on the ground. The tank to hold that oxidizer can be left on the ground. The incredible feats of engineering that are the high speed pumps can be left on the ground. The extra support structure within the spaceplane itself (landing gear, wing spar structure, fuselage structure), they can all be left on the ground. The fuel to lift all of that extra structure, equipment, oxidizer, and the fuel to carry the extra fuel CAN BE LEFT ON THE GROUND.
Microsoft has always been behind the times. Windows was chasing after Apple's GUI. They barely missed being run over by the Internet (anyone remember having to install Trumpet WinSocks to get a TCP/IP stack?), and all their consumer products have been poor hacks of other successful products that have offered neither innovation nor redeeming value until they've been marked down to the bargain bin (This includes the Xbox which was in the bargain bin to begin with. MS sold them at a loss to try to gain market share.)
And with millions, or even billions, of dollars on the line, you don't think these speculators would hire an analyst or two? They won't be speculating long if they're that dumb.
Nah. Probably somebody with the intelligence to understand how a economic system more complex than a barter system works. They just couldn't stand your ignorant whining.
How much does the farmer make if the grain rots in his field because he can't find someone to buy it from him? A farmer used to be able to tend a few acres of land if he worked really hard. The big industries provided the ability for one farmer to tend to hundreds of acres. Who added more value? Where did Apple get the money to invest in manufacturing plants to build the computer? Who decides which innovations will be big sellers and which are wastes of time? How much is someone that can see past the haze of ideas to the ones that will actually solve problems that people are having?
The economy looks confusing to you, because you refuse to acknowledge the benefits that others provide.
It's not Facebook that will be looking get bailed out. It will be AIG or Bank of America or some other such entity that is "to big to fail", and yet gambles like a drunken sailor because they have legislatures on the hook, and bureaucrats installed in critical places.
And a misguided student, thinking himself a terrorist, flew a Cessna into an office building. He broke a window and knocked a LOT of paper off a desk.
Doesn't your report sound so much more ominous, though. 200 people. Thick, black smoke. It all sounds SO....ominous.
But I could have broken the window with a rock, or started the fire in a bathroom with a roll of toilet paper. Either way, I would have accomplished MUCH more with a rented van.
The restrictions on private aviation is just the government picking on a minority of the population. It's an easy way for them to expand their power base, as most people will agree with the restriction since it isn't something they participate in or understand.
No, the REALLY pathetic part is you looters actual think taking money from people who earned it to give to moochers is charity, and will do anything other that convince them that they deserve to have someone support their existence simply because they've become accomplished at exhaling CO2.
Security team? I don't think you and I are referencing the same Microsoft. 8*)
What we need is a new language, built from the bottom up for security, that can do CPU and GPU virtualization so the code doesn't need to know squat about what you have to run the site.
It's called Java. People rejected it because it was virtualized and ran in a sandbox 8*(
And on abortion with medical necessity....can we call that what it is? That isn't even abortion, it's triage. Politicians and preachers both need to shut up and let the doctors handle that one.
sorry: Personal pet peeve. People bringing up ridiculous edge cases to derail a real debate.
All they would provide is the fact that Bill Clinton said, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." That's it. That would be their function.
That wouldn't be quite it. There is also, "A dress, taken from the closet of Monica Lewinski had sample of sperm which DNA tests match closely with Bill Clinton." And then there is, "Bill Clinton was impeached for lying during a trial for sexual harassment, not for doinking a fat, ugly intern."
Concerning Perl Harbor, how would sinking most of our Pacific fleet NOT be an instigation of war?
If I want to find out what the story is around the latest federal budget numbers, I go to cbo.gov.
So, you can get numbers that say Obamacare will save money. Then they come out later and say that it won't save money. The only way it would save money is if you used the assumptions that Congress told them to use, which were ridiculous assumptions.
No thanks. I'll keep looking at multiple sources, letting the arguments for and against stand on their own strengths or weaknesses. Having the "federal stamp of approval" on any particular argument only makes me wonder who has an iron in that particular fire.
Second, the proposal in question would require a trivial amount of money; factcheck.org and polifact.com, for example, already do this kind of work. I wonder what their budgets are--probably 6 or 7 figures? A government with a 13-figure budget could do contribute significantly to that kind of work with money that would amount to a rounding error. BBC news appears to be around 8 figures, for a complete news organization with international coverage.
Third, this hardly strikes me as a "waste". If we could better educate our voters with such a tiny fraction of our budget, that sounds like spending that could pay for itself.
No it wouldn't be a waste. For a mere 8 figures, we could put whichever political party is in power in control of what is considered the "truth". And they would be "independant", just like NPR is "independant".
And if you don't think the country is broke, then you've bought the Democrats line. It doesn't mean that I'm not broke, just because someone else has something I can confiscate.
Yes? Do you have a point that everyone doesn't know already? We also know that the scanners are useless. Being expensive and useless, is it wrong to try to save money?
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Really, now? And how come all the news reports were blaming Bush for the downturn following the Internet bust in 2000 when the man had barely had time to write his first State of the Union address? Partisan much?
I take it that the foolishness that is Barack Obama wasn't obvious to you then? This point is especially painful to me as I'm in the market for a used car.
Are you sure it wasn't in the movie "Up Paul's Revere" ?
This is a difficult problem considering the vagueness of language. IMO, laws should protect the greater good as well as individual rights as evenly as possible. Some examples:
Let's say a man is speeding down the highway. A state patrolman pulls him over for doing 90 in a 65 zone. The trooper goes up to the window and reveals his pregnant wife in the back seat, currently in labor. Does the patrolman write him out a ticket, or let him go? Following the letter of the law, he'd get a ticket, and potentially lose his driver's license. But there's almost no peace officer who would give out a ticket in that situation - it's rather common for them to escort the car the rest of the way, siren's blaring.
And then write the speeder a ticket at the hospital. Happened to my brother-in-law 8*)
What a bunch of whiners. "The program I used 20 years ago went away! "
Pfft! How about getting a real friggin' parallel and serial port on a modern laptop. Embedded computers still like to talk to the world over a 9600baud connection, and the parallel port still makes an awesome cheap multi-sensor port.
they are burning fuel and OXIDIZER. It's higher for diesel, but for gasoline you need 12 to 17 lbs of air for every pound of fuel. For each 1000 lbs of fuel, this engine would enabled you to leave 14,000 lbs of oxidizer in the tank on the ground. The tank to hold that oxidizer can be left on the ground. The incredible feats of engineering that are the high speed pumps can be left on the ground. The extra support structure within the spaceplane itself (landing gear, wing spar structure, fuselage structure), they can all be left on the ground. The fuel to lift all of that extra structure, equipment, oxidizer, and the fuel to carry the extra fuel CAN BE LEFT ON THE GROUND.
Microsoft has always been behind the times. Windows was chasing after Apple's GUI. They barely missed being run over by the Internet (anyone remember having to install Trumpet WinSocks to get a TCP/IP stack?), and all their consumer products have been poor hacks of other successful products that have offered neither innovation nor redeeming value until they've been marked down to the bargain bin (This includes the Xbox which was in the bargain bin to begin with. MS sold them at a loss to try to gain market share.)
And with millions, or even billions, of dollars on the line, you don't think these speculators would hire an analyst or two? They won't be speculating long if they're that dumb.
It wouldn't. It would bail out the financial institutions with political connections that invested in Facebook.
That being said, why would the government bail out Chrysler?
What, was it a Facebook fanboi?
Nah. Probably somebody with the intelligence to understand how a economic system more complex than a barter system works. They just couldn't stand your ignorant whining.
How much does the farmer make if the grain rots in his field because he can't find someone to buy it from him?
A farmer used to be able to tend a few acres of land if he worked really hard. The big industries provided the ability for one farmer to tend to hundreds of acres. Who added more value?
Where did Apple get the money to invest in manufacturing plants to build the computer? Who decides which innovations will be big sellers and which are wastes of time? How much is someone that can see past the haze of ideas to the ones that will actually solve problems that people are having?
The economy looks confusing to you, because you refuse to acknowledge the benefits that others provide.
What's that you say? A sort of "Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog Rule"?
It's not Facebook that will be looking get bailed out. It will be AIG or Bank of America or some other such entity that is "to big to fail", and yet gambles like a drunken sailor because they have legislatures on the hook, and bureaucrats installed in critical places.
If they don't want to be tracked they should fly VFR and keep their asses below 18,000ft.
And a misguided student, thinking himself a terrorist, flew a Cessna into an office building. He broke a window and knocked a LOT of paper off a desk.
Doesn't your report sound so much more ominous, though. 200 people. Thick, black smoke. It all sounds SO....ominous.
But I could have broken the window with a rock, or started the fire in a bathroom with a roll of toilet paper. Either way, I would have accomplished MUCH more with a rented van.
The restrictions on private aviation is just the government picking on a minority of the population. It's an easy way for them to expand their power base, as most people will agree with the restriction since it isn't something they participate in or understand.
No, the REALLY pathetic part is you looters actual think taking money from people who earned it to give to moochers is charity, and will do anything other that convince them that they deserve to have someone support their existence simply because they've become accomplished at exhaling CO2.
Did the security team take a vacation or what?
Security team? I don't think you and I are referencing the same Microsoft. 8*)
What we need is a new language, built from the bottom up for security, that can do CPU and GPU virtualization so the code doesn't need to know squat about what you have to run the site.
It's called Java. People rejected it because it was virtualized and ran in a sandbox 8*(
I agree.
And on abortion with medical necessity....can we call that what it is? That isn't even abortion, it's triage. Politicians and preachers both need to shut up and let the doctors handle that one.
sorry: Personal pet peeve. People bringing up ridiculous edge cases to derail a real debate.
All they would provide is the fact that Bill Clinton said, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." That's it. That would be their function.
That wouldn't be quite it. There is also, "A dress, taken from the closet of Monica Lewinski had sample of sperm which DNA tests match closely with Bill Clinton." And then there is, "Bill Clinton was impeached for lying during a trial for sexual harassment, not for doinking a fat, ugly intern."
Concerning Perl Harbor, how would sinking most of our Pacific fleet NOT be an instigation of war?
With complicated issues like that, how do you say which is more accurate?
As always, by winning the war.
The problem is that it is very easy to lie simply by NOT quoting a source.
If I want to find out what the story is around the latest federal budget numbers, I go to cbo.gov.
So, you can get numbers that say Obamacare will save money. Then they come out later and say that it won't save money. The only way it would save money is if you used the assumptions that Congress told them to use, which were ridiculous assumptions.
No thanks. I'll keep looking at multiple sources, letting the arguments for and against stand on their own strengths or weaknesses. Having the "federal stamp of approval" on any particular argument only makes me wonder who has an iron in that particular fire.
Second, the proposal in question would require a trivial amount of money; factcheck.org and polifact.com, for example, already do this kind of work. I wonder what their budgets are--probably 6 or 7 figures? A government with a 13-figure budget could do contribute significantly to that kind of work with money that would amount to a rounding error. BBC news appears to be around 8 figures, for a complete news organization with international coverage.
Third, this hardly strikes me as a "waste". If we could better educate our voters with such a tiny fraction of our budget, that sounds like spending that could pay for itself.
No it wouldn't be a waste. For a mere 8 figures, we could put whichever political party is in power in control of what is considered the "truth". And they would be "independant", just like NPR is "independant".
And if you don't think the country is broke, then you've bought the Democrats line. It doesn't mean that I'm not broke, just because someone else has something I can confiscate.
Yes? Do you have a point that everyone doesn't know already? We also know that the scanners are useless. Being expensive and useless, is it wrong to try to save money?