Campaign finance reform has never worked before. That's why it's perenially an issue. Oops, the last reform didn't work; time to reform it again.
Governments are more often the cause of economic disaster than the salvation of it. The Fed caused the Great Depression by deflating the currency.
The role of government in the marketplace is to prevent violence. Whenever you go beyond that, politicians have something to sell, and sell it they will.
And among the editors.... about 40%. At least judging at the dupe rate.
I've always wondered why Cmdr Taco has never implemented a pre-posting check which looked at all the quoted URLs to see if they've been included in a recent article.
I see zero evidence that computers in U.S. classrooms are making education better.
You're mistaking teaching and learning. Teaching is something that teachers do in spite of what the children are doing. Learning is something that children do in spite of what the teachers are doing.
Nick says that they'll have a version of the motherboard that goes into a case which can hold umpty-ump disks for caching of interesting things like NASA WorldWind tiles.
No company has agreed to make them yet at any price.
You're right, Quanta hasn't agreed to make them yet for about $140. Have you considered checking the truthfulness of what you post, or is it easier to just make up shit?
Contrast that to the "personal responsibility" that the idiot libertarians preach and you'll see why we are soon to be at each other's throats
Libertarians are among the most generous people you'll ever find -- with their own money. Leftists are always willing to help themselves -- to other people's money.
There was no need to push the door closed. His foot had entered your dwelling without permission, so even if they saw anything through the open door, it would have been without probable cause.
But hey, other people can learn from your mistake, so it's good that you told your story; thanks.
Of course he kept getting pulled over! He didn't have his license to Drive While Black prominently displayed in the lower right corner of his windshield. What, do these people think they have the freedom of movement guaranteed to all citizens by the Constitution? Where did they get the strange idea that they have the same civil rights as the rest of us? Why, the next thing you know, we'll have blacks with long rifles strolling down the street as if gun ownership and open carry was legal. And Huey Newton will roll over in his grave.
Oh, so we're supposed to cooperate with the secret police? How about 1) asking politely? Or 2) buying the images from you? After all, private property shall not be taken for a public purpose without due compensation.
Yes they should, and they should also IMMEDIATELY lose their job.
No, they should be immediately suspended. If they're responsible for their actions under the law, they're also to be afforded due process under the law.
Money. Big money interests (both corporations and individuals) have an undue amount of influence in our political system.
Sure. That's because we have allowed our government to meddle in the market. Now the market is meddling in our government and the results are pretty ugly. We would be much better off with a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing freedom of trade. When legislators don't have any influence to sell, the big money interests won't waste their time buying legislators.
Sure, because in my day we had to put five septets in a word, and waste one bit. Ahhh, those were the good old days. 36 bit computers. Who wouldda thunk that they'd be supplanted by 32 bit computers? Those computers went up to 36.
"There are eight bits in a byte." Really?? When I started programming, you could select the byte size. Now we're forced into 8 bit bytes. What a horrible loss of freedom. I blame Canada. And terrorists. And global warming.
The reason you want to be able to build a working system quickly is so that you can throw out the first one. You see, there is no substitute for learning how to do something than to actually do it. Trouble is that, if you invest a lot in the first one with an eye to reducing maintenance costs, you won't be willing to throw it out even though the entire structure of the program is fucked. A program is founded on a certain set of assumptions. If your assumptions are wrong, then the foundation of your program is wrong. Your program can never be fixed. It must be thrown out, and a new program with correct assumptions must be written.
The second system will also be fucked, because you are a sophomore. It, too, must be thrown out. Only until you get to version 3.0 will you actually have a working system which should and will last for the lifetime of the product. THEN you worry about maintenance.
That's a great theory. It usually works the other way: a company opens up to compete against the monopolist, the monopolist buys them out, and the principals turn right around and start another competing company. Happened to Rockefeller's Standard Oil many times. One guy sold three refineries in a row to him.
But Wikipedia is more than simply an encyclopedia that anyone can edit. A characteristic of Wikipedia is that article quality varies. Some articles are fabulous. Others are unimpressive. Others are misleading. And others are out and out lies. Fortunately, Wikipedia does a reasonable job of identifying the quality of articles.
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You can't "dabble" in day trading. It's a full-time job. You would do much better to buy shares of SPY via Scottrade, and hold them forever.
Simple. I claw other people's eyes out.
Campaign finance reform has never worked before. That's why it's perenially an issue. Oops, the last reform didn't work; time to reform it again.
Governments are more often the cause of economic disaster than the salvation of it. The Fed caused the Great Depression by deflating the currency.
The role of government in the marketplace is to prevent violence. Whenever you go beyond that, politicians have something to sell, and sell it they will.
And among the editors .... about 40%. At least judging at the dupe rate.
I've always wondered why Cmdr Taco has never implemented a pre-posting check which looked at all the quoted URLs to see if they've been included in a recent article.
According to Laptop.org, the OLPC spokesthingie was misquoted: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:News
I see zero evidence that computers in U.S. classrooms are making education better.
You're mistaking teaching and learning. Teaching is something that teachers do in spite of what the children are doing. Learning is something that children do in spite of what the teachers are doing.
Some people seem to think that computers somehow make people smarter and better-educated all of a sudden,
It sure didn't work for you, did it?
Nick says that they'll have a version of the motherboard that goes into a case which can hold umpty-ump disks for caching of interesting things like NASA WorldWind tiles.
No company has agreed to make them yet at any price.
You're right, Quanta hasn't agreed to make them yet for about $140. Have you considered checking the truthfulness of what you post, or is it easier to just make up shit?
Contrast that to the "personal responsibility" that the idiot libertarians preach and you'll see why we are soon to be at each other's throats
Libertarians are among the most generous people you'll ever find -- with their own money. Leftists are always willing to help themselves -- to other people's money.
There was no need to push the door closed. His foot had entered your dwelling without permission, so even if they saw anything through the open door, it would have been without probable cause.
But hey, other people can learn from your mistake, so it's good that you told your story; thanks.
Of course he kept getting pulled over! He didn't have his license to Drive While Black prominently displayed in the lower right corner of his windshield. What, do these people think they have the freedom of movement guaranteed to all citizens by the Constitution? Where did they get the strange idea that they have the same civil rights as the rest of us? Why, the next thing you know, we'll have blacks with long rifles strolling down the street as if gun ownership and open carry was legal. And Huey Newton will roll over in his grave.
Oh, so we're supposed to cooperate with the secret police? How about 1) asking politely? Or 2) buying the images from you? After all, private property shall not be taken for a public purpose without due compensation.
Yes they should, and they should also IMMEDIATELY lose their job.
No, they should be immediately suspended. If they're responsible for their actions under the law, they're also to be afforded due process under the law.
Money. Big money interests (both corporations and individuals) have an undue amount of influence in our political system.
Sure. That's because we have allowed our government to meddle in the market. Now the market is meddling in our government and the results are pretty ugly. We would be much better off with a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing freedom of trade. When legislators don't have any influence to sell, the big money interests won't waste their time buying legislators.
If we do not like something, we change it by voting.
Oh? Why, then, does my legislator do the exact opposite of everything I ask him to do?
No problem. My car looks like a car, and when I'm out of it, I look like a pedestrian. No problem seeing me ... unless they're blind.
Snake creeps down might be a bit of a stretch (hehe).
"No".
.sig wrong. It goes like this:
By the way, you got your
When immigration is criminalized, only criminals will immigrate.
which of course also explains why you don't see many white-collar workers illegally immigrating.
Now ... to program the robot to do the Yang Long Form!
Sure, because in my day we had to put five septets in a word, and waste one bit. Ahhh, those were the good old days. 36 bit computers. Who wouldda thunk that they'd be supplanted by 32 bit computers? Those computers went up to 36.
"There are eight bits in a byte." Really?? When I started programming, you could select the byte size. Now we're forced into 8 bit bytes. What a horrible loss of freedom. I blame Canada. And terrorists. And global warming.
The reason you want to be able to build a working system quickly is so that you can throw out the first one. You see, there is no substitute for learning how to do something than to actually do it. Trouble is that, if you invest a lot in the first one with an eye to reducing maintenance costs, you won't be willing to throw it out even though the entire structure of the program is fucked. A program is founded on a certain set of assumptions. If your assumptions are wrong, then the foundation of your program is wrong. Your program can never be fixed. It must be thrown out, and a new program with correct assumptions must be written.
The second system will also be fucked, because you are a sophomore. It, too, must be thrown out. Only until you get to version 3.0 will you actually have a working system which should and will last for the lifetime of the product. THEN you worry about maintenance.
That's a great theory. It usually works the other way: a company opens up to compete against the monopolist, the monopolist buys them out, and the principals turn right around and start another competing company. Happened to Rockefeller's Standard Oil many times. One guy sold three refineries in a row to him.
But Wikipedia is more than simply an encyclopedia that anyone can edit. A characteristic of Wikipedia is that article quality varies. Some articles are fabulous. Others are unimpressive. Others are misleading. And others are out and out lies. Fortunately, Wikipedia does a reasonable job of identifying the quality of articles.