Hillary's plan costs taxpayers less PER PERSON, but the dodge is that she forces people to pay in who don't want to. This doesn't help those people, and only serves to make the numbers look better and let her brag about "universal" care.
Krugman is campaigning for Hillary, so it's not surprising that he'd try to confuse people about Hillary's mandatory health-care plan. The major difference is that with Hillary's plan, bureaucrats in Washington are going to decide how much you can "afford" and pull it out of your paycheck, pretending it's not a tax. Obama's plan is to work to make the coverage affordable, but people will get to choose on their own.
Krugman's response is little more than "but... but... Obama mandates care for children!" Yeah, he does, but there's a difference between children and responsible adults.
Oh, I've heard about it. I just find that the best way to respond to the lowest racial/religious/etc smears is to pretend not to understand them. And maybe to hint that the smearer needs to do some research.
Though honestly, in this case, while I do understand why it would be potentially useful for various parties to slander Obama's religion, I'm not sure why anyone would believe it. I guess I'm reminded of all those spam offers of Viagra... somebody must bite, after all, or spamming wouldn't be profitable.
That's because Clinton's plan forces middle-class citizens to purchase care, without using subsidies to help them pay for it. Krugman is using typical old-school liberal thinking, where your personal economic situation is irrelevant unless you're "poor", where "poor" is an arbitrary line drawn on a chart. That's why it's OK to plan a mandate that affects only the middle class (the rich have existing coverage, the poor will get subsidies) and then accuse anyone who points this out of "evil" Republican-style tactics.
The PROBLEM is that we have to make some kind of distinction, or we'd have to give equal time to every crank out there who says they're running for President.
Using two separate mechanisms to denote structure -- curly braces with the real meaning, and indentation as an alleged re-creation of what the curly braces indicate -- also asks for problems. Many people find the whitespace problems less troublesome than the curly-brace problems. Pretending that either solution is perfect is plain nonsense. The Python solution is not hard to use or understand.
I find that your criticism falls at a surprisingly shallow level of thinking. You would think that someone familiar with Lisp would be able to see beyond the first layer of a language and recognize that the strength or weakness of Python has little to do with syntax details that take five minutes to accept. The simplicity, flexibility, and overall utility of a language's cognitive model is more important, and it seems like whining about syntax is little more than noise in an important debate. Yet for some reason, the use of whitespace in Python inspires an obsessive response from people who happily ignore the (debatably worse) syntax crimes of Perl, Ruby, or C++.
Are you doing serious programming in Python with an editor that doesn't understand Python's block style? For that matter, when you do copy/paste with your C++ code, are you saying you don't bother to fix the indentation?
First of all the selling occurred on MLK Day, when US equities markets were closed and futures trading was extremely light. So a smaller amount of money can have a disproportionate impact.
Second, many traders attempt to play a sort of "follow the leader" game where they look for indications that a big player is in the process of performing some big transaction and attempt to make a profit by essentially charging that big player a premium (if they are buying) or getting a discount (if they are selling). That can easily result in disproportionate activity in the market (which is a bit part of why markets fluctuate so much in the short-term anyway).
Last but not least, I would need someone with enough time to play through all of them. Most importantly, this subject(s) would need to be non-interested meaning they have no previous gaming experience.
Why would someone with no experience in gaming be a good judge of video games? Do you like to read movie reviews by people who have never seen a movie before?
In your obsession with objective metrics, you have lost sight of the nature of art. I give your method a big fat zero, on my own subjective scale (of course).
No, silly-pants, this has nothing to do with some giant culture war. You made a joke and somebody thought it wasn't funny. As always throughout history, every time you use humor you are taking a risk. That's what makes humor interesting and why comedians have thick skins. If you get upset when people don't like your jokes, perhaps humor is not for you.
A skills-based game, like Super Mario Bros. as a classic example, teaches the meaning of success and failure (something schools increasingly don't do). If you are good enough, you will win; otherwise, you fail. But everyone fails at first, over and over again; these games teach that if you want to be good at something, you have to suffer through being bad at it for a while, but you will eventually improve.
Games like the traditional JRPG or most MMORPGs probably shouldn't be played by children, as they teach that the way to succeed is not to improve your own skills, but to put in a lot of time leveling up. This perspective will be useless in the real world unless they get one of the few seniority-based union jobs.
This sort of philosophical distinction is seldom appreciated in discussions of children and video games, being drowned out by a debate centered on violence, but I think that in a long-term sense it's a much more important consideration.
Forgive me if I'm wrong (as I'm not an HTML guru in the least) but isn't that the point of DOCTYPE? Meaning, if a broken page wants to use the buggy renderer they shouldn't be setting a strict DOCTYPE.
Microsoft is so committed to their long-standing policy of coddling the incompetent that they want a way to be lax on pages that specifically request a strict interpretation.
As you say, highways are critical to Texas. But nobody wants to pay for them; Joe Public is convinced that he's paying too much for gas already and he got sticker-shock from his property tax bill. Meanwhile labor costs increase due to the anti-immigration movement, so while the money is shrinking the road work is getting more expensive.
Besides, what's wrong with tolls? You're going to be paying for the road no matter how they present the bill. Why ask the people who don't use the road to pay for it?
ME to XP happened solely because Microsoft had a solid platform (NT) ready to replace the 1993-era Win9x platform that ME was built on. Where is Microsoft's new platform now?
The undercurrent to the entire iPhone story is that the development team has been in a huge rush for months. I think this is fairly obvious to anyone who experienced the 1.0 firmware -- Safari would load an average of 10-20 pages per crash, there was some serious weirdness with the battery charge indicator, and I'm sure that many of the reports of dropped calls or whatever were in fact serious software problems. Honestly, I haven't seen an OS so flaky since RedHat 5.0. Besides that, major features that were clearly planned for release were disabled (like the iTunes WiFi Store). And let's not forget that 1.0 could be hacked from visiting a Web page, due to a vulnerability that was well-known long before the iPhone release.
Again, ask anyone who used the early firmware revisions and they will tell you that Apple seriously needed to get things fixed pronto before the story of iPhone software problems hit the press. I doubt the developers had any time to mess with checksums or whatever.
I'm not sure it's right to say that Apple uses slot-loading drives for "no good reason". It's hard to imagine where you'd put a tray-loading drive on an iMac as it's difficult and failure-prone to load a disk into a vertically-mounted tray-loader.
Laptop tray-loading drives are all very flimsy due to the need to be lightweight, so there is some reason for a slot-loader on laptops also. The Mac Mini uses a laptop-size optical drive so it would face the same problem.
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Now the liar is you -- Obama's plan is cheaper.
See Krugman himself: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/ -- $102 billion from taxpayers from Obama's plan, $124 billion for Hillary's.
Hillary's plan costs taxpayers less PER PERSON, but the dodge is that she forces people to pay in who don't want to. This doesn't help those people, and only serves to make the numbers look better and let her brag about "universal" care.
Sorry, but when the man wins entire states he has a right to keep trying, especially since he's spent so much less money than Romney.
Krugman is campaigning for Hillary, so it's not surprising that he'd try to confuse people about Hillary's mandatory health-care plan. The major difference is that with Hillary's plan, bureaucrats in Washington are going to decide how much you can "afford" and pull it out of your paycheck, pretending it's not a tax. Obama's plan is to work to make the coverage affordable, but people will get to choose on their own.
Krugman's response is little more than "but... but... Obama mandates care for children!" Yeah, he does, but there's a difference between children and responsible adults.
Oh, I've heard about it. I just find that the best way to respond to the lowest racial/religious/etc smears is to pretend not to understand them. And maybe to hint that the smearer needs to do some research.
Though honestly, in this case, while I do understand why it would be potentially useful for various parties to slander Obama's religion, I'm not sure why anyone would believe it. I guess I'm reminded of all those spam offers of Viagra... somebody must bite, after all, or spamming wouldn't be profitable.
It's common sense now to put an unwanted burden on middle-income Americans simply so that you can brag about how your plan is "truly universal"?
That's because Clinton's plan forces middle-class citizens to purchase care, without using subsidies to help them pay for it. Krugman is using typical old-school liberal thinking, where your personal economic situation is irrelevant unless you're "poor", where "poor" is an arbitrary line drawn on a chart. That's why it's OK to plan a mandate that affects only the middle class (the rich have existing coverage, the poor will get subsidies) and then accuse anyone who points this out of "evil" Republican-style tactics.
The PROBLEM is that we have to make some kind of distinction, or we'd have to give equal time to every crank out there who says they're running for President.
I'm sorry, but I wasn't aware that there were any Muslims in the race. Are you referring to Mike Gravel? I haven't really done any research on him.
Using two separate mechanisms to denote structure -- curly braces with the real meaning, and indentation as an alleged re-creation of what the curly braces indicate -- also asks for problems. Many people find the whitespace problems less troublesome than the curly-brace problems. Pretending that either solution is perfect is plain nonsense. The Python solution is not hard to use or understand.
I find that your criticism falls at a surprisingly shallow level of thinking. You would think that someone familiar with Lisp would be able to see beyond the first layer of a language and recognize that the strength or weakness of Python has little to do with syntax details that take five minutes to accept. The simplicity, flexibility, and overall utility of a language's cognitive model is more important, and it seems like whining about syntax is little more than noise in an important debate. Yet for some reason, the use of whitespace in Python inspires an obsessive response from people who happily ignore the (debatably worse) syntax crimes of Perl, Ruby, or C++.
Are you doing serious programming in Python with an editor that doesn't understand Python's block style? For that matter, when you do copy/paste with your C++ code, are you saying you don't bother to fix the indentation?
First of all the selling occurred on MLK Day, when US equities markets were closed and futures trading was extremely light. So a smaller amount of money can have a disproportionate impact.
Second, many traders attempt to play a sort of "follow the leader" game where they look for indications that a big player is in the process of performing some big transaction and attempt to make a profit by essentially charging that big player a premium (if they are buying) or getting a discount (if they are selling). That can easily result in disproportionate activity in the market (which is a bit part of why markets fluctuate so much in the short-term anyway).
Since hitting the reserve price brings more clarity, wouldn't it be more accurate to say "the plot thins"?
Last but not least, I would need someone with enough time to play through all of them. Most importantly, this subject(s) would need to be non-interested meaning they have no previous gaming experience.
Why would someone with no experience in gaming be a good judge of video games? Do you like to read movie reviews by people who have never seen a movie before?
In your obsession with objective metrics, you have lost sight of the nature of art. I give your method a big fat zero, on my own subjective scale (of course).
Unless the name itself is actually really dumb, like "I wince every time I have to use WinCE" or "Windows Vista? I just don't see it."
No, silly-pants, this has nothing to do with some giant culture war. You made a joke and somebody thought it wasn't funny. As always throughout history, every time you use humor you are taking a risk. That's what makes humor interesting and why comedians have thick skins. If you get upset when people don't like your jokes, perhaps humor is not for you.
A skills-based game, like Super Mario Bros. as a classic example, teaches the meaning of success and failure (something schools increasingly don't do). If you are good enough, you will win; otherwise, you fail. But everyone fails at first, over and over again; these games teach that if you want to be good at something, you have to suffer through being bad at it for a while, but you will eventually improve.
Games like the traditional JRPG or most MMORPGs probably shouldn't be played by children, as they teach that the way to succeed is not to improve your own skills, but to put in a lot of time leveling up. This perspective will be useless in the real world unless they get one of the few seniority-based union jobs.
This sort of philosophical distinction is seldom appreciated in discussions of children and video games, being drowned out by a debate centered on violence, but I think that in a long-term sense it's a much more important consideration.
Let's not forget the protectionist labor market practiced by the entire developed world.
Forgive me if I'm wrong (as I'm not an HTML guru in the least) but isn't that the point of DOCTYPE? Meaning, if a broken page wants to use the buggy renderer they shouldn't be setting a strict DOCTYPE.
Microsoft is so committed to their long-standing policy of coddling the incompetent that they want a way to be lax on pages that specifically request a strict interpretation.
As you say, highways are critical to Texas. But nobody wants to pay for them; Joe Public is convinced that he's paying too much for gas already and he got sticker-shock from his property tax bill. Meanwhile labor costs increase due to the anti-immigration movement, so while the money is shrinking the road work is getting more expensive.
Besides, what's wrong with tolls? You're going to be paying for the road no matter how they present the bill. Why ask the people who don't use the road to pay for it?
OT I know, but the binary mega/giga/etc have basically never ever been used for telecom throughput metrics, and there's certainly no reason to start.
That's a terrible count.
Windows 1 - 3 (though the picture here was sort of confused in the first place, but never mind)
Windows 95 (4)
Windows 98 (4.1)
Windows ME (4.2)
The above three being sort of concurrent with:
Windows NT 3.5
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000 (NT 5)
Then the line was unified as:
Windows XP (5.1)
So Windows Vista is 6 and now we are talking about Windows 7. Got it now?
ME to XP happened solely because Microsoft had a solid platform (NT) ready to replace the 1993-era Win9x platform that ME was built on. Where is Microsoft's new platform now?
The undercurrent to the entire iPhone story is that the development team has been in a huge rush for months. I think this is fairly obvious to anyone who experienced the 1.0 firmware -- Safari would load an average of 10-20 pages per crash, there was some serious weirdness with the battery charge indicator, and I'm sure that many of the reports of dropped calls or whatever were in fact serious software problems. Honestly, I haven't seen an OS so flaky since RedHat 5.0. Besides that, major features that were clearly planned for release were disabled (like the iTunes WiFi Store). And let's not forget that 1.0 could be hacked from visiting a Web page, due to a vulnerability that was well-known long before the iPhone release.
Again, ask anyone who used the early firmware revisions and they will tell you that Apple seriously needed to get things fixed pronto before the story of iPhone software problems hit the press. I doubt the developers had any time to mess with checksums or whatever.
Yeah, and loading disks into a PS2 mounted vertically is difficult and failure-prone.
I'm not sure it's right to say that Apple uses slot-loading drives for "no good reason". It's hard to imagine where you'd put a tray-loading drive on an iMac as it's difficult and failure-prone to load a disk into a vertically-mounted tray-loader.
Laptop tray-loading drives are all very flimsy due to the need to be lightweight, so there is some reason for a slot-loader on laptops also. The Mac Mini uses a laptop-size optical drive so it would face the same problem.