By the way Three Mile Island is safe. I mean, you can walk around. It was almost nasty, but the history with nuclear is unless you're a total idiot nothing bad happens.
Given that the world is full of total idiots in critical jobs, that's a pretty good argument against nuclear power.
A few years ago I ripped all ~700 CDs in our household, many dating back to the 1980s. Although a few of them ripped rather slowly, I don't think that there was a single unreadable disc in the whole collection.
I only use my department's SharePoint when I absolutely have to, but I've never been able to make heads or tails out of it.
It seems to be some kind of half-assed mashup of a website, a file share, a blog, a wiki and a revision control system. I think it combines just the worst attributes of each one. Maybe it makes sense to someone, but I can never find anything in that mess.
Most of the people I work with stick with one of those simple open source wikis that we have set up. You have to do manual markup to add stuff, but at least it makes sense.
Difference being: nobody is currently proposing that all sources of ignition be altered to include technical means to trace the fire back to the instigator.
Although I do remember a few decades back the idea was floated to include tiny uniquely coded plastic particles into all firearm propellants. I think that the response from the NRA was no more nuanced than Snowden's blog postings.
Consider lending someone your car to drive 100 miles. They return the car with 10,000 miles on it. You complain, and they offer to pay you for another 100 miles. That's not what the agreement was, and they made an insulting offer to compensate for it.
... so obviously, the next logical step would be to demand $2M from the renter for the 10,000 miles driven.
Actually, it was an alien park ranger. (It's pretty obvious from the lack of interstellar traffic around here that this corner of the galaxy is a nature preserve.)
The ranger was just trying to stop this experiment before we park inhabitants blow ourselves to kingdom come.
You don't see rival mob families running to the police for help solving their conflicts. They're able to divide up the landscape into exclusive territories without government help.
Maybe I have poor I/O bandwidth, but if I'm doing anything besides paying attention to what's being presented (including trying to take notes), I retain little of it. If I do pay attention, I usually have little problem recalling what I need, especially since I can usually reference a textbook or handout.
Way back when I was in college, I didn't realize this at first. I took copious notes freshman year that added up to several inches of notebook thickness. Making those notes was stressful and not that helpful to my studies, so I rapidly cut back. By the end of my college career, the notes for any given class were usually limited to jotting down the scheduled dates and times of the quarterly and final exams.
As I pointed out above, that viewpoint only works as long as you're willing to let sick people who can't afford insurance on their Wal-Mart salary crawl off and die.
If this country isn't going to allow that, then it's a subsidy. So far, this country doesn't allow it (at least directly). You could work to change that if you don't want to see these subsidies. Maybe you could watch "Soylent Green" to get some ideas.
If you have a system where the government helps everyone with health care, then that indeed is not a business subsidy. Health care would not be considered part of the cost of having employees. (But that's "socialism", Derp!)
If instead you have a system where people are expected to obtain their health care coverage from their employers or with their own income, but a subset of employers arrange to both skip on those benefits and set pay so low that the employees are below the poverty line, then when the government steps in to provide that health care so people don't die in the gutter, it damned well is a business subsidy. Wal-Mart could not set its prices so low without offloading a portion of the cost of employment onto the government.
The government might have the money to increase R&D funding if companies like Microsoft hadn't used creative accounting to almost totally avoid paying taxes. Perhaps Bill should have thought about that sooner.
Given the huge external costs of petroleum extraction and burning, logic would dictate that the gas taxes should be raised, and a *larger* fraction of that revenue should be siphoned off to cover costs other than highways.
For example, within a few decades the government is going to be footing a multitrillion dollar bill for building seawalls and dikes around much of the United States in a futile attempt to battle rising sea levels. The current gas taxes are a drop in the bucket compared to this looming cost.
I think I've seen this trick from you (or someone like you) before.
I don't think there is any possible thing I could post, from any source, that you wouldn't deny with semantic games and make new demands. I doubt that there is any objective evidence in this entire universe that you would allow to conflict with your preconceived world view. I'm not going to waste my time like that.
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By the way Three Mile Island is safe. I mean, you can walk around. It was almost nasty, but the history with nuclear is unless you're a total idiot nothing bad happens.
Given that the world is full of total idiots in critical jobs, that's a pretty good argument against nuclear power.
I heavily use hotkeys, too. However, I would have never guessed that anyone would map backspace to that function.
In every browser I can remember using, it's always been Alt+LeftArrow. I figure that's good enough to leave unconfigurable.
...but I'm afraid to post them online.
None of my old CDs work anymore.
A few years ago I ripped all ~700 CDs in our household, many dating back to the 1980s. Although a few of them ripped rather slowly, I don't think that there was a single unreadable disc in the whole collection.
But maybe I'm just incredibly lucky.
I only use my department's SharePoint when I absolutely have to, but I've never been able to make heads or tails out of it.
It seems to be some kind of half-assed mashup of a website, a file share, a blog, a wiki and a revision control system. I think it combines just the worst attributes of each one. Maybe it makes sense to someone, but I can never find anything in that mess.
Most of the people I work with stick with one of those simple open source wikis that we have set up. You have to do manual markup to add stuff, but at least it makes sense.
How does water flowing on Mars affect my life or anyone else's in a meaningful way? Can anyone give me an answer? I'm betting nobody can.
This news gives you a heads-up that once you move to Mars, you're going to have to make some serious altitude adjustments to your cake recipes.
Difference being: nobody is currently proposing that all sources of ignition be altered to include technical means to trace the fire back to the instigator.
Although I do remember a few decades back the idea was floated to include tiny uniquely coded plastic particles into all firearm propellants. I think that the response from the NRA was no more nuanced than Snowden's blog postings.
These are photos of some hotel bar. The analogy does not correspond to any kind of "custom exotic car"; at best it's an off-lease Toyota Corolla.
Consider lending someone your car to drive 100 miles. They return the car with 10,000 miles on it. You complain, and they offer to pay you for another 100 miles. That's not what the agreement was, and they made an insulting offer to compensate for it.
... so obviously, the next logical step would be to demand $2M from the renter for the 10,000 miles driven.
Or it could be aliens from the planet Zorg.
Let's keep speculating here.... ready, set, go!
Actually, it was an alien park ranger. (It's pretty obvious from the lack of interstellar traffic around here that this corner of the galaxy is a nature preserve.)
The ranger was just trying to stop this experiment before we park inhabitants blow ourselves to kingdom come.
Users at my job are supposed to log out at the end of the day, giving Windows the chance to update itself during the nightly maintenance window. .
If your machines require a "nightly maintenance window", maybe that's a sign that your OS isn't all it's cracked up to be.
That's right!
You don't see rival mob families running to the police for help solving their conflicts. They're able to divide up the landscape into exclusive territories without government help.
Not even close: ...
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I figure that there's room for at least 10 more years of releases.
Maybe I have poor I/O bandwidth, but if I'm doing anything besides paying attention to what's being presented (including trying to take notes), I retain little of it. If I do pay attention, I usually have little problem recalling what I need, especially since I can usually reference a textbook or handout.
Way back when I was in college, I didn't realize this at first. I took copious notes freshman year that added up to several inches of notebook thickness. Making those notes was stressful and not that helpful to my studies, so I rapidly cut back. By the end of my college career, the notes for any given class were usually limited to jotting down the scheduled dates and times of the quarterly and final exams.
This isn't god damned ice cream.
As I pointed out above, that viewpoint only works as long as you're willing to let sick people who can't afford insurance on their Wal-Mart salary crawl off and die.
If this country isn't going to allow that, then it's a subsidy. So far, this country doesn't allow it (at least directly). You could work to change that if you don't want to see these subsidies. Maybe you could watch "Soylent Green" to get some ideas.
I explained exactly how it is a subsidy under our system.
Just because you don't want to hear it doesn't make it untrue.
If you have a system where the government helps everyone with health care, then that indeed is not a business subsidy. Health care would not be considered part of the cost of having employees. (But that's "socialism", Derp!)
If instead you have a system where people are expected to obtain their health care coverage from their employers or with their own income, but a subset of employers arrange to both skip on those benefits and set pay so low that the employees are below the poverty line, then when the government steps in to provide that health care so people don't die in the gutter, it damned well is a business subsidy. Wal-Mart could not set its prices so low without offloading a portion of the cost of employment onto the government.
The government might have the money to increase R&D funding if companies like Microsoft hadn't used creative accounting to almost totally avoid paying taxes. Perhaps Bill should have thought about that sooner.
So in your view, some people should just crawl off and die if they get sick with a treatable illnesses.
Given the huge external costs of petroleum extraction and burning, logic would dictate that the gas taxes should be raised, and a *larger* fraction of that revenue should be siphoned off to cover costs other than highways.
For example, within a few decades the government is going to be footing a multitrillion dollar bill for building seawalls and dikes around much of the United States in a futile attempt to battle rising sea levels. The current gas taxes are a drop in the bucket compared to this looming cost.
walmart isn't a private company. Is it owned by the government? No. Does it survives only via government largess? No.
As far as I can tell Walmart scaled pretty damn well.
Unlike many businesses, they rely on the government to provide a good chunk of of their employees' benefits packages.
... and don't underestimate the bandwidth.
I think I've seen this trick from you (or someone like you) before.
I don't think there is any possible thing I could post, from any source, that you wouldn't deny with semantic games and make new demands. I doubt that there is any objective evidence in this entire universe that you would allow to conflict with your preconceived world view. I'm not going to waste my time like that.
Is this because Millennials are better at Science, or simply because they believe, what public school teachers told them?
The former.
Next question?
Is this right?? 2' x 2' chip?
That's right.
And the package is shaped like Stonehenge.